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- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -5/+263"Climate Change:The Next 10 Years"....
seriously, don't use the thumbnails if you can't find a suitable one. - ashishmohta, on 08/16/2008, -2/+112lol climate change will make ram faster
- avanor, on 08/16/2008, -1/+92remind me in 4 years, when its almost released.
- Boognish, on 08/16/2008, -0/+34I have been hearing about MRAM to be used in "the next couple of years" for about the last 5 years. Get it out to market already!
- wonderbriefs, on 08/16/2008, -1/+17Same place you can download a new motherboard.
- FingersMckenzie, on 08/16/2008, -4/+18I think you mean "Fastest RAM to date". What's up with the abusive use of "ever" on digg?
- zyklon, on 08/16/2008, -2/+15Normally I digg down for that meme, but this is appropriate.
As for Crysis, I think that this new RAM might pass for the RAM that Tycho was talking about here:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/15/ - 1ncu3us, on 08/16/2008, -1/+12Just give us cheap solid state hard drives already!
- NecroSexy, on 08/16/2008, -2/+12At least it's not the iExplore, generic map of the world. Start your adventure today!
- KMartSheriff, on 08/16/2008, -2/+12Agreed. Just like we were reminded 4 years ago, to be reminded today.
- schrutefan, on 08/16/2008, -1/+11That's all very nice, but what we really need are faster hard drives and wireless connections.
- homersaysdoh, on 08/16/2008, -2/+11Tomorrows top story on DIGG:
Fastest RAM ever incorporated in next gen iphones used by scientists to cure cancer! - CATSCEO2, on 08/16/2008, -0/+8Combo broken, FAIL.
- coollettuce, on 08/16/2008, -1/+8Unrelated much?
- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -5/+12Ollie X Spinflip X grind X Wobble control 2400 pts
- Residents, on 08/16/2008, -2/+9look at flash drives serving things such as readyboost. Solid state hard drives are here. RAM is close to never forgetting you're boot sequence. Meaning 10 second or less boot times. That's not even fast because I'm not talking about recovering from stand-by. In the future you're RAM will be your hard drive and memory burst rate will be more than incredible and on a new level. Video card gddr will be your hard drive speed. "The hard drive is the slowest and most often used component in your computer." Just wanted to throw my thoughts out there.
- TVarmy, on 08/16/2008, -0/+6I suspect it would take a really huge magnet. As in, one that would be big enough to pick up Billy's mom's car.
I would know, because I am having intercourse with her. - BedPost, on 08/16/2008, -0/+6It'll be out in the next couple of years
- Enron, on 08/16/2008, -1/+7Your thoughts discombobulated me.
- xsecretfiles, on 08/16/2008, -4/+10So where can I download it?
- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -0/+5Cool! The fastest RAM evar! I'll buy a truckload of the stuff so I never have to buy it ever again....Until 18 months from now.
- DeathGod321, on 08/16/2008, -0/+5Why don't you just make them? I thought that was the glory of open source.
- santaliqueur, on 08/16/2008, -1/+6Yeah, I bet you were right on the brink of "making" the ram. Probably some other "engineer student" beat you to it.
- Swipecat, on 08/16/2008, -0/+5A bit of checking with other news sources tells me that this German bunch got MRAM settling times of 1ns beating the previous best by IBM of 2ns, which is 10 times faster than the figures given by this messed up article. So MRAM is now faster than DRAM but still much slower than SRAM.
- XYZ1, on 08/16/2008, -1/+5German engineering...still world class ;-)
- TVarmy, on 08/16/2008, -0/+4Tony Hawk reference, for those who don't get it.
- khyberkitsune, on 08/16/2008, -0/+4Global Cooling will eliminate the need for computer cryogenics to keep my faulty G86 GPU from overheating!
- borez, on 08/16/2008, -0/+4Who is billy, and why would he be sticking a giant sodding magnet against my computer?
- TVarmy, on 08/16/2008, -0/+4Takes a really strong magnet to screw up a hard drive. I think it'd be the same case here. If that is the case, I expect MRAM to have some pretty hardcore shielding. I mean, considering that computers are full of electromagnetic fields and other magnets (motors in optical drives, fans, magnets to write to hard drive platters, internal speaker, etc), this probably has some pretty good tolerance built in or added on.
- BXRWXR, on 08/16/2008, -0/+4It's supposed to be in CAPS. Get it right.
Sincerely,
Alan Goats - dhughes, on 08/16/2008, -0/+4 MRAM must run pretty hot if it causes global warming!
- Phyltre, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3Well, it's accurate unless your definition of "ever" in this case runs into the future.
- koko775, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3Disclaimer: I am a student in computer science and electrical engineering.
No. The CPU is about two orders of magnitude faster than RAM - you can execute a hundred instructions in the time it takes a memory fetch to occur. Take off one of those orders of magnitude like these people claim, and data-heavy programs will reach a limit of up to 10 times speed increase. The thing about hard drives is that they are anywhere from five to nine orders of magnitude slower than the CPU, making improvement in hard drives much more noticeable in the average case (such as using a RAM disk as you mentioned). Faster RAM would be an incredibly large win. It is by no means a dead research area, nor has it reached a point of diminishing returns. It's merely exceedingly hard to achieve the said speedup using traditional methods. - Achi11es, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3Yes, just like today. Hard drives use magnets?
- clickwir, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3I don't think they will release it until 2 variables are met.
1) We've exhausted the ROI on current RAM technology.
2) They have one, maybe 2, "next gen" technologies working in the lab. Faster, more dense and/or cheaper than what they are getting ready to release.
So, until they have no more use of the kind we are using now, and one or two more prototypes for something faster down the road, we won't see it. - Meestafa, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3so, couldn't you just ***** someone's computer up with a magnet?
- jdepp, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3Magnetic RAM needs zero power to maintian the contents, whereas DRAM needs refresh cycles -> it'll be useful in laptops / battery powered applications if it can be integrated.
- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -2/+4RAM speed doesn't matter much these days when there is a bottleneck in the hard disk. RAM speed has already reached its diminishing return, the point where 1000% of speed improvement increases the overall computing speed of only 10%. If you can make hard disk as fast as present-day RAM, by using RAM disk from Texas Instruments, you will increase your overall computing speed by 500% or more.
- Swipecat, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2But the figures are horribly slow. Are they confusing ns for ps or fs -- or BS?
- fizzberry, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2Actually, this is the world's fastest ram:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YzTkkh3Bdc - gemlarin, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2Wouldn't such a technology be limited by the transmission speeds of the supporting architecture? I'm not an engineer, so I could be wrong here.
- ChileanGoD, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2You mean that rebooting the computer will no longer solve all our problems? We're doomed.
- ferrell, on 08/16/2008, -1/+3Here's a video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIiUMyNWYUU - voodoozombie, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2That would be nice if it could be used. We have reached the limit with DDR3, which is as fast as our systems can handle, so this is a useless laboratory experiment.
- HonoredMule, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2Widening the bus does NOT reduce latency. The only solution for latency is to reduce the duration of read/write operations. Widening the bus is what we've been doing for the past few years because it's been all we could do, and it lets us do more at a time, which--in some cases only--hides the effects of latency.
Do you even know what a hypervisor is? How about a memory controller, or what a northbridge even does?
And you certainly cannot reduce latency by widening the disconnect between CPU registers and main memory. Quite the contrary, that is why memory controllers and inter-core communication is being integrated directly into the CPU, and the GPU is exploring a closer relationship with the CPU.
1ns memory is the silver bullet we desperately need. - Achi11es, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2The same thing that would happen if he did it to my existing MAGNETIC hard drive?
- Brian48216, on 08/16/2008, -3/+5The picture makes sense in that it's an article in NewScientist- in that particular issue.
- ChayD, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1Sort of like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_core_memory - inactive, on 08/16/2008, -1/+2I think it would be funnier in the literal sense.
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