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[valarauca1]

It'll come down. Demand will be massive (if it lives up to the hype). This could potentially unify the RAM and Hard disks in computers.

[DelwinAmber → valarauca1]

There will always be a place for yet faster memory. Does this compete with the registers and L1/L2 cache in terms of speed?

[avmich → DelwinAmber]

But at least caches are often transparent to software, thus don't affect software as much.

[valarauca1 → DelwinAmber]

Likely my basic understanding of memristors they require a certain ramp time. So I don't think it'll replace cache.

[leishulang → DelwinAmber]

it doesn't need to. If it's faster than the whole 'caching' procedure, than it is faster regardless.