Memory Cube

[Robert17]

Micron is shipping engineering samples of their memory cube to partners as of now. By next year volume shipments will be in the wild and sometime after that these chips will be available to consumers.

This is a pretty big deal. Coupled with upcoming CPUs, SSDs, and MBs, the throughput of data is going to take a pretty large leap forward in the next couple of years.

http://investors.micron.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=793156

 

[Robert17]

I posted the above news flash from Micron recently. And we've had a post about VNand as well. Today I ran across this article @ DigiTimes which is interesting. The paradigm is shifting. Rapidly. It looks like there are only a few years left of the world we've come to know so far as planar memory products.

Several years ago the HDD manufacturers introduced perpendicular storage. In the Ivy Bridge generation of CPUs we saw the first iteration of 3D transistors. Within the last year or two we've also be delighted to see 3D printing become a 'thang'. Even printing in low MP metals.

Certainly higher density Everything in the way of PCs makes a compelling thought occur: **** Tracey's wrist watch is beyond obsolete already.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20131004PR202.html

http://www.micron.com/