Flash will be the storage of choice
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Claims NAND controller developer


Flash memory based solid state storage devices (SSD) are pushing hard disk drives out of the market and will replace them, according to the president of NAND controller developer Silicon Motion.

Samsung readies MRAM
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Fast RAM out on an electron spin

Samsung is about to apply MRAM to its system semiconductor foundry services.

Optane is in the shops
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Intel makes all sorts of speed claims

Intel has told us that its Optane memory will be available for desktops right now.

SK Hynix announces 8Gbit GDDR6 DRAM
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Coming in early 2018

SK Hynix has announced its GDDR6 DRAM chips, advertising them as "the world's fastest" 2x nm 8Gb GDDR6 DRAM on the market.

Microsoft puts quantum computing on ice
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Cool for potentially dead or alive cats 


Software king of the world Microsoft has some rather cool quantum computing plans which involves rather a lot of ice.