New super fast FRAM and USB 3.0 stuff...

[Axel Mertes]

Super Talent shows up with a USB 3.0 enabled stick series, that are up to 320 MByte/s fast.
http://www.supertalent.com/home/pre...bb068c22&lid=c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b

Another interesting development comes from Texas Instruments with their new FRAM technology, that seems to be ready for primetime.
With this they will deliver non-volatile storage at traditional RAM speeds, so imagine CF cards or similar that can transfer gigabytes/second if the host interface allows to do so.
http://www.ti.com/rfid/govid/fram.shtml
http://www.techonline.com/learning/course/220301649?queryText=Memory


Amazing stuff...

Cheers,
Axel

 

[Peter Mosiman]

This explains a bit about the speeds of USB 3.0. It's pretty awesome. (just in case you didn't know much about it like myself )

http://www.pcworld.com/article/172757/wheres_usb_30.html

 

[Andrew Antoniewicz]

Another interesting technology that looks to be just around the corner is PCRAM or phase-change RAM. A few of the major memory manufacturers have announced they are moving into the production phase with this technology (Samsung, STMicro, Intel). It definitely looks like a great replacement for Flash, and possibly for PC memory as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_memory