| fatslob-:O said: I disagree ... Bridging the gap between NAND and DRAM was no new idea. Everspin Technologies was the first to do it with their MRAM. The transistor has created ENTIRE industries revolving around it's technology while this "3D XPoint" storage is going to be limited to a specialized market segment like big data since it is going to require tons of DIMM slots to get a reasonable storage size ... |
I didn't say this was as big as the transistor, just that it was the first real breakthroug since the transistor 
MRAM is more a counterpart to RAM, while this is more akin to NAND flash. It's application currently is for data centers and analytical applications, as a RAM/NAND hybrid, but it's application in consumer electronics is, I think, more like NAND, as storage, just much much faster.
