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What is the Next GREAT Memory Technology?

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In your opinion, what is the next great Memory technology, or any PC technology, that will give us a huge jump in performance?

one thing i've learned since i bought this laptop w/ the step down cpu is: cpu speed isn't nearly as important as we like to make it out to be sometimes.

man, i can chug along at 750 mhz like it's no ones business and not feel hardly any difference from when it was running at 1 ghz just a few minutes before. other factors seem much more important right now, in particular the hard drive.

so, back to the question, which one piece of technology, or which area of technology will give us the boost into another realm of performance??
 
Nice one.


I would guess something that has to do with HDs and also the add-on stuff (PCI's replacement in the future).
 
well specifically I cannot name any one memory technology, but I can tell you, it is the lack of high speed memory that holds back your entire computer.

first of all, your mass storage device. when do you think you'll hear access times in the nanoseconds on a drive with physically moving parts? never! You'll have to wait for some sort of (affordeable) solid state storage to get anywhere near RAM speeds on your mass storage device (potentially eliminating the need for RAM in the first place).

then of course you have cache on the CPU, and memory on the video card! yikes, talk about demanding! the cache on the CPU has to run so fast, that it is almost always capable of responding to requests within a matter of a few cycles (which means it can still be improved). There are some CPU's with L1 cache running at 1 cycle (meaning 1 cycle passes by before a responce), but that's only L1, cache, which must typically be small in order to achieve such speeds. then your L2 would be another story, hitting anywhere from 5 to 15 cycles latency. after that, you resort to your system RAM, which takes even longer of course.

trust me, it's the memory devices that need the most improvement in a computer.
 
next gen floppy drives...









or speeding up hard drives, or a new type of mass storage (like what was already brought up)
 
soccerman

i like that reply, it's one of the reasons i posted this. i remember when EDO ram was coming out and it was THE NEXT BIG THING, come to find out it was a huge dud and it came around way to late, cause the NEXT BIG THING just swept edo ram away, then we had the DDR SDRAM vx Rambus RAM as the NEXT BIG Thing and we know that indeed, they both perform better that SDR SDRam, but not enough to make the majority of us spend any real money to make changes.

also, processor speeds have increased faster than they've ever increased before. our memory subsystems are soo far behind the CPU speeds. truth is untill the memory subsystems improve increases in cpu speed are more for marketing than anything else.
 
I think the next step is evolutionary. DDR SDRAM's speed is pushed from 133 to 150 or 200mhz (effectively 300 and 400mhz respectively). Dual pump it (like the nForce is supposed to do) or quad pump it like RAMBUS and you can have as much as 1.6ghz effective memory speed.
At higher speeds, voltage will also drop from 2.5v to 1.7-1.8v.
 
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