Posted on 03/22/2017 2:18:07 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Summary: Intel is introducing a new type of memory it claims is 1000 times faster than previous Flash memory and can store 10 times more data than DRAM. Its newly released product is five times faster than current SSDs. Called 3D XPoint, pronounced "Three D Cross Drive," intel claims its new memory is "truly transformational" for the entire computer industry.
This article is from Wired, and is link only due to copyright considerations:
Intel’s Bold Plan to Reinvent Computer Memory (and Keep It a Secret)
Read the article at the link above.
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sad that apple has to rely on INTEL products.
What happened top those guys?
Intel is on a mission to change the world...again.
And it’s not just XPoint.
VR, Robot cars and FPGAs. Lots of stuff.
So I can get rid of my floppy disks?
Some non-blocked articles from elsewhere
https://www.techworm.net/2017/03/intel-releases-first-375gb-optane-ssd-can-also-used-ram.html
https://wccftech.com/intel-optane-ssd-dc-p4800x-revenue-quarter-3d-xpoint-roadmap/
It depends. Are they 10", 8 ¼", or the 3 ½" floppies?
Only for their Mac lineup and some are saying Apple may put their own A11 processors in their lower end iMacs and MacBooks. It's perfectly possible to do. They've had macOS Sierra versions running on A10X processors for some time. . .
That’s kinda personal.
Didn't you mean: Are they 8", 5¼", or 3½" floppies?
I don't remember any 10" or 8¼" models...
Yeah, but only the 5 inchers. Keep the
3 1/2 inchers 8 more years.
To which guys? Apple has always used Intel memory
Skynet approves.
When the MIS department which I’m a part of started a mass cleanup and purge last year, the boss found a couple of what looked like 10” floppies still in the cardboard.
When I worked in some IT groups a couple decades ago, we were still using equipment with 8 inch floppies. Old equipment from the 1970s, but government was still using it into the 1990s.
If there were 10" or 8-1/4" drives or diskettes, I never saw them.
I was having a brain fart for the 8" size. . . but there were 10" floppies for a while. They had a clamp down transport that was sort of reminiscent of a record player with a lid. There weren't too many of them around. The dentist I work for did some for had an old computer that used them to load the system on the computer. He kept the system disks in an old 78 RPM record album. He had to reload the system about every two weeks or so or every time there was a power failure. My recollection was they were 128K and IIRC the system was THEOS. I don't even remember the name of the computer which had a built in keyboard and an eight or nine inch green screen monitor, also built in. The OS and data was later moved to a PC using yes, 5 ¼" disks. The 5MG HD platter on that old system was about 20" in diameter and was housed in a separate cabinet. . . and had to be driven to San Francisco to be defragged by the manufacturer about every three months or so.
The last time I ever saw any 10" floppies was a box of five of them were for sale for one dollar at an electronic surplus store called HSC in Sacramento. They had a main store down in Sunnyvale.
Yup. . . they're rarer than hen's teeth. Only thing rarer are the transports to read and write them.
The leader had been there over 20 years and he couldn’t remember them ever being used or the hardware that ran them.
He figured they belonged to his predecessor and some long dead system.
They need to revamp memory just to keep up with all the OS updates.
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