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Persistent memory (MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM) to replace DRAM, but it could take a decade (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by testeronious to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Density would be a factor as well for both cost and device dimension/weight.

Cache is way faster than RAM, but it takes up too much die space and power to be the only volatile memory.

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