Intel Previews Potential Replacement for Flash

Intel has the first prototype of a new type of nonvolatile memory chip that they hope will replace current flash memory. I don’t know much about this new memory chip but I dig on the name “phase change memory”.

Intel, as part of a lengthy joint venture with ST Microelectronics, has produced the first Phase Change Memory or PCM chips—nonvolatile memory chips that work well for both executing code and storing large amounts of data, giving it a superset of the capabilities of both flash memory and dynamic random access memory.