The little under searched WDC website have some statements which is mind boggling! For examle this statement:
"Western Digital has researched non-volatile memory for several years, ranging from basic materials research (including cell physics and design),call me whatever you want it sounds like 4DS! It continues :" to memory cell array fabrication and testing. All these efforts will be combined when a product is launched into this emerging market". Hang on! Hang on! What the....
So it explains why: "Memory located close to the CPU needs fast access time, or latency close to the CPU clock speed, for it to be used as CPU cache memory. The latency of both SSD and HDD data storage devices is too slow to be use" so i uderstood that IOT, AI, Autonomous vehicles maybe 5G cannot run with SSD-s and HDD-s build in them. So these has being planned from day 1??
This cooperation and working together to launch this beauty which is the best vehicle to 4-th gen tech revolution? Wow!
That explains Siva Sivaram-s talk @ IMEC:
joint development agreement with Western Digital subsidiary HGST, a global storage leader, which accelerates the evolution of 4DS’ technology. 4DS also collaborates with imec, the world’s #1 independent semiconductor development institute. In my opinion this shows the absolute determination of ALL 4 involved in this project to put in on market as soon they can and as perfect as it can be. Price? Based on above sky is the limit but definitely NOT $1 or 2 but higher. The full website:
https://www.westerndigital.com/company/innovations#non-volatile-memory
Good luck all Kopasz
