Intel’s Bold Plan to Reinvent Computer Memory (and Keep It a Secret)

lotuseclat79 · Mar 23, 2017

Intel’s Bold Plan to Reinvent Computer Memory (and Keep It a Secret)

Intel just unleashed a new kind of computer memory it believes will fundamentally change the way the world builds computers. But it won’t tell the world what’s inside.

The company calls this new creation 3D XPoint—pronounced “three-dee cross-point”—and this week, after touting the stuff for a year-and-a-half, Intel finally pushed it into the market. You can think of the new technology as a computer building block that can serve more than one purpose—a single thing that can replace several others.

But the new tech also serves as a way for Intel to shift multiple markets in its favor. That’s probably why it won’t say what the memory is actually made of. Certainly, Intel doesn’t want others duplicating the technology, which it developed alongside hardware maker Micron.
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mirimir · Mar 23, 2017

This is rather ironic. Maybe we'll have secure memory. But who is "we"? With CPUs fundamentally unsecurable, "we" is whoever controls CPU.

Rasheed187 · Mar 25, 2017

Bring it on, sounds good to me. If I understood correctly, this will eventually replace both SSD's and RAM?

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