#Intel and its #3DXPoint memory have dominated recent headlines on #NAND flash alternatives, but they’ve never been the only game in town. #Everspin, a company whose technology we’ve covered several times in the past, announced today that they will bring new #MRAM -based drives to market with new partners and commercial relationships. In theory, as we’ve discussed before, MRAM could represent a so-called ‘Holy Grail’ — a non-volatile memory solution that is lower power than DRAM while offering improved performance. MRAM is extremely reliable (much more so than NAND flash) and should be faster than NAND flash, but its storage densities are much lower. Today, Everspin’s densest chips reach 256Mb per die. That’s not particularly large compared with even planar NAND, and the advent of 3D NAND has sent flash densities soaring.
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