| Teeqoz said: I meant 3D XPoint has more potential in the storage industry than transistors. Transistors can be improved by about 50x of what they are now (and that is being extremely generous), while this can, (at least according to Intel and Micron) reach 1000x of what current storage is at. |
IBM, for instance, promised 83,000x denser storage a few years back because they managed to store a retrievable bit on as few as 12 atoms while the average flash needed 1,000,000 atoms per bit. Not to mention the promise of 1 THz carbon transistors and gallium arsenide chips manage to pop up on news every few years. Maybe it is better to be a little careful on what tech companies promise (Intel for instance claims 20-30% better chips every new architecture only for them to run 3-5% faster) because we've seen the same song being sung a thousand times already. Specially when said claim goes as far to claim 20 years of improvements (that's back when Moore's law ran at full speed) on a single breakthrough. Even transistors, for the enormous, world-changing breakthrough they were, managed a mere 16x over vacuum tubes when they first came out.
