Above: An individual die can store 128Gb of data

Intel and Micron begin production on new class of non-volatile memory, creating the first new memory category in more than 25 years.

New 3D XPoint™ technology brings non-volatile memory speeds up to 1,000 times faster than NAND, the most popular non-volatile memory in the marketplace today.

The companies invented unique material compounds and a cross point architecture for a memory technology that is 10 times denser than conventional memory.

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