Imagine a few years from now having a smartphone or an iPad equipped with extremely nonvolatile memory, retaining information for decades, is ultra-fast, can be made cheap with already-existing manufacturing technology, and holding a terabyte of data.

Your reaction is probably gonna be the same as mine: “Shut up and take my money!!”

A Crossbar RRAM chip sitting atop a CMOS

A little company called Crossbar came out roaring yesterday with its announcement about developing what it’s calling resistive RAM (RRAM).  And as The Register is reporting, this could be the “flash killer” that makes NAND memory – which is fast approaching the upper limit for feasibility – obsolete.

From the article:

“With our working Crossbar array, we have achieved all the major
technical milestones that prove our RRAM technology is easy to
manufacture and ready for commercialization,” said Crossbar CEO George Minassian when announcing his company’s new