On the topic of flash

[Peter Stuge]

Maybe we'll see this take over in a year or two.

http://www.numonyx.com/en-US/About/PressRoom/Releases/Pages/IntelSTDeliverFi...

NOR, NAND and RAM all in one.

//Peter

[ron minnich]

lots of excitement about PCM. Some proposals include having ONLY PCM
in systems -- no DRAM at all!

ron

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 17.05.2009 01:06, ron minnich wrote:
> Some proposals include having ONLY PCM in systems -- no DRAM at all!

That makes suspend-to-RAM a _very_ interesting option, especially since
it won't consume any power in that state.
Suspend-to-RAM and resume speed could become _the_ key selling point of
coreboot. Yay!

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Joseph Smith]

On Sat, 16 May 2009 16:06:42 -0700, ron minnich  wrote:
> lots of excitement about PCM. Some proposals include having ONLY PCM
> in systems -- no DRAM at all!

June is right around the corner :-)

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/samsungs-pram-chips-go-into-mass-producti...