In the semiconductor industry there are often break-through, game-changing technologies that are unveiled and then there are the sort of absolute thermonuclear detonations like Intel and Micron just jointly announced. At a morning press conference in San Francisco, Intel and Micron unveiled 3D XPoint (Cross Point) memory technology, a non-volatile memory architecture so disruptive it could very well change the entire landscape of consumer and enterprise computing in very short order–from laptops and desktops, to enterprise servers, game consoles and hand-held devices. The bulk of current gen solid state storage requirements for computer architectures are serviced by NAND Flash technology, which offers dramatically faster read and write response times over mechanical hard drives, at the expense of capacity and cost primarily but also it’s still one of the slower bottlenecks in a given device architecture.

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