In addition to working together on 3D NAND, Micron and Intel are also working on another innovative 3D technology that is an alternative to both flash and DRAM. 3D Xpoint (pronounced "three-dee cross-point") is still a ways from becoming available as a commercial product, but the two companies say it could be the biggest breakthrough in memory technology since the 1970s. It combines the functions of storage and memory in a single product that will be both inexpensive and fast. It's also non-volatile like flash, meaning that it retains data when the system is powered down. They say it could usher in a whole new style of system architecture and make big data processing much faster than has been possible in the past.
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