Micron Develops Hybrid DIMMs To Pack 256 Gb Of Memory

Be ready folks, memory chips are going to be faster and fatter! Memory chip manufacturer Micron is planning to develop a DDR4 compatible hybrid chip. The hybrid chip is supposed to place NAND flash along with DRAM memory modules that ride the DDR4 bus.
This new chip will put flash ahead of SSDs in the memory hierarchy. DDR4, that is based on JEDEC standard, can move data at a whooping speed of 2.1 billion blocks per second. This RAM-flash mutant will be delivered as a hybrid dynamic inline memory module (DIMM). The DIMM controller interfaces with the server's DDR4 bus. It also controls the latency difference between DRAM and NAND accesses. In this way it takes benefits of both DRAM and NAND. DRAM takes nanoseconds to access and NAND provides plenty of storage.
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The DIMM can contain more that 256Gb of memory. Okay, so all sounds well, but there is a small issue, no current operating system supports this new technology! Company hopes that Microsoft will help them, there is no confirmation about it though.
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