Flash memory company Spansion has not had a glorious past. Cripping losses, Chapter 11, abrupt departures of the CEO and CFO, debt, delisting, lawsuits, you name it and Spansion has dealt with it. However, there’s a silver lining for Spansion as they’ve decided to introduce NOR Flash into conventional memory. Currently in a basic DIMM form factor, it boast 60x performance improvements.
The Stanford Exploration Project, the industry-funded research consortium, used it to reduce the processing time on multi-terabyte datasets and was reportedly able to visualize half-terabyte datasets on typical x86 servers for the first time. Stanford said the data reorganization step in its processing flow was cut from 22 hours to 22 minutes.
via Spansion Claims Breakthrough in Main Memory | SYS-CON INDIA.
