washingtonpost.com — Samsung on Monday unveiled a new type of memory chip that it said will allow digital devices to work faster by saving new data more quickly. The phase-change random access memory, or PRAM, chip is nonvolatile, meaning it will retain data even when an electronic device is turned off, and is about 30 times faster than conventional flash memory.
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Closed AccountSep 11, 2006
no P-RAM is fine now shh
drnodozeSep 11, 2006
Will this be proprietary tech? If so what will the pricing be like?
jtjdtSep 11, 2006
I shall call it "Promise Ram" :-)
jknevittSep 11, 2006
Oh my dear god. I think I'm having a seizure.
ajcatesSep 11, 2006
i think PRAM is the next thing, image turning on your computer and having it boot up in about 3 seconds, you could just save the state of what ever your doing and then come back to it instanly, but that would only work if it is really as fast as system memory.anthor cool thing that could be done with this is you could have like a 512mb section of pram on your mb, then when you press the power button, it will load start up files and stuff from the PRAM, you start up in 7 seconds, you could then ad in programs to the pram, for even faster launching of those programs, think of it like a chache for your hard drive.
digdug2020Sep 11, 2006
It was not nand it was RAM. go google on it.
neocortexSep 11, 2006
I'm just waiting for the sales people to complain about having to push the PRAM a lot once it is introduced.
ajcatesSep 11, 2006
"PRAM keeps its state even while power is off, like flash. Your system ram doesn't do that."why can't my system ram do that?? it should be able to do it, why do all my apps close when i power off my computer??
steelmaverickSep 11, 2006
I Promise I will RAM you.
hvitravnSep 11, 2006
lol this thread rules
radiatedantSep 12, 2006
^^Didnt know samsung was in the porn industry