Replies to post #10616 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[CombJelly]

"I wonder when muni-laptops will come with flash instead of HDD?"

When they solve the limited number of erase cycles. 100k or 1 million erase cycles might sound like a lot, but that could raise problems in your swap space or with temporary files...

[sgolds]

yourbankruptcy, yes, you can do more than keeping the disk image of the OS in such a memory: You could keep the runtime image which would be instantly available on powerup!

Think of the technology industry with a non-volitile, dense memory running at the speed of DRAM: The current order of DRAM manufacturers, Flash manufacturers and hard drive manufacturers collapses. Fortunately for those companies, such a memory would be introduced over a period of years as cost, reliability and manufacture issues are resolved.