It can be argued that their patent portfolio was worth about that much.
Yes. On Linux it's /dev/shm and it is a ramdisk that you can access from multiple processes. IPC (Inter-Process Communication) is a known technology. This won't change it much if at all.
There's a huge difference between the lab and a production model.
There will always be a place for yet faster memory. Does this compete with the registers and L1/L2 cache in terms of speed?
CPU's may end up looking more like GPU's with thousands of registers.
Energy usage is the huge one - if this is applied to computing and not just storage then maybe.
It can be argued that their patent portfolio was worth about that much.
Yes. On Linux it's /dev/shm and it is a ramdisk that you can access from multiple processes. IPC (Inter-Process Communication) is a known technology. This won't change it much if at all.
There's a huge difference between the lab and a production model.
There will always be a place for yet faster memory. Does this compete with the registers and L1/L2 cache in terms of speed?
CPU's may end up looking more like GPU's with thousands of registers.
Energy usage is the huge one - if this is applied to computing and not just storage then maybe.