Week 3 Posting - BSIT200 - UltraRAM

This week we learned about RAM, how works, and the different kinds of it. I decided I wanted to look into recent developments and stumbled upon something called UltraRAM and in-memory processing. The Physics and Engineering Department of Lancaster University in the United Kingdom published a paper about the UltraRAM, saying that it "combines the non-volatility of a data storage memory, like flash, with the speed, energy-efficiency, and endurance of a working memory, like DRAM."

UltraRAM is said to be able to be the universal memory type and will make Hard Drives and Solid State Drives unnecessary. Your storage and memory would be together on the same piece of silicon. They said that it would be a huge step forward for something called In-Memory Processing. This is a method for getting rid of the bottlenecking that is caused by the movement of data between the processor and the main memory. Since the stored data would be accessed much faster when placed on the RAM, it allows for data to be analyzed in almost real-time.

The benefits of UltraRAM would be "faster processing speeds, higher-performing hardware, the ability to avoid having to use a traditional data warehouse allowing increased volumes have data, decreased power consumption, and increases in throughput due to lower access latency and greater memory bandwidth and hardware parallelism."

I personally feel like this could be a great thing for the future of processing and at least more importantly to me, PC gaming. But I worry the price point may end up being way out of my league. I guess we'll see if it becomes a success.