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Does flash, like solid state drives, have the same lifespan in terms of write? If so, it feels like this would most certainly not be useful for AI, as that use case would involve doing billions/trillions of writes in a very short span of time.
Edit: It looks like they do: https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/hardware/life-expectancy-of-a-drive/
Manufacturers say to expect flash drives to last about 10 years based on average use. But life expectancy can be cut short by defects in the manufacturing process, the quality of the materials used, and how the drive connects to the device, leading to wide variations. Depending on the manufacturing quality, flash memory can withstand between 10,000 and a million [program/erase] cycles.
For AI processing, I don’t think it would make much difference if it lasted longer. I could be wrong, but afaik, running the actual transformer for AI is done in VRAM, and staging and preprocessing is done in RAM. Anything else wouldn’t really make sense speed and bandwidth wise.
Oh I agree, but the speeds in the article are much faster than any current volatile memory. So it could theoretically be used to vastly expand memory availability for accelerators/TPUs/etc for their onboard memory.
I guess if they can replicate these speeds in volatile memory and increase the buses to handle it, then they’d be really onto something here for numerous use cases.
You just fucking wait. Trump is bringing manufacturing to the US. And when that plant opens someday you’ll be so sorry you doubted.
I’m sure the foxconn plant in Wisconsin will fire up ANY DAY NOW! drums fingers
I talked to like 50 people today and all of the people said they were starting manufacturing plants tomorrow and they’ll be fully functional Tuesday around 3:15.
I started mine earlier and I’ve already done manufacturing 3 times today. It’s really easy. By this time tomorrow I’ll have a couple more and they’ll all be winning manufacturing.
Tariffs gave me the ability to finally believe in myself. Tariffs have increased my stamina in bed, given me a full head of hair again, and since I started manufacturing plant yesterday I’ve dropped 50 pounds.
Yeah… At best click baity as fuck, at worst a complete scam.
Any time there is a 10x or more in a headline you are 10x or more likely to be right by calling it BS.
Not possible.
Why? If they looked at how current tech works then they could easily develop the same tech 10000x faster
How
replace “the joke” with “irony” and then send the image to yourself
Holy shit I think with the joke, irony, and the two of you, I might be able to put some sort of perpetual motion machine together! Now I just need some investors…
Most Don’t Know This
and the circle will be complete
Easy, instead of developing the technology themselves they just copy it and claim they developed it 10000 times faster.
It’s a play on the original title.
No? Oh, that’s a shame. I was hoping for some improvement in the world, but a random person on the internet said it wasn’t possible without giving any reasons at all. Oh well.
No it’s literally impossible without bypassing the speed of light and/or the size of atoms.
Too bad the US can’t import any of it.
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That was yesterday. It doubled since then IIRC
“These chips are 10,000 times faster, therefore we will increase our tariffs to 10,100%!”
China scientists
So, Chinese scientists?
Seriously, for me a “China scientist” is someone doing research on China, like a space scientist would do research on astronomy and similar. But I’m not a native English speaker, so, idk
The wording of the headline would be different if it were trying to convey that.
Someone doing research on China is a chiologist.
Same as someone doing research on biology is a biologist.
Biology -> biolog -> biologist
China -> chin -> chinist?
Me stutter? No think so!
Him legend.
Probably because is an ethnicity and nationality. There are ethnic Chinese people all over the world and a few countries and regions are made of a majority of ethnic Chinese but are not related to China. Calling them the same thing is playing into the PRC’s “all ethnic Chinese pledge their allegiance to China” nonsense.
Isreal like that game of pretend. They believe anti zionist Jews are traitors.
It’s a reasonable assumption that someone in China is Chinese.
The reverse, however, isn’t true. It may be somewhat understandable but not entirely reasonable to assume someone who is Chinese is from China which is what I’m trying to say.
Isn’t that true for every (older) country though?
Perhaps but I haven’t encountered that myself. I’m ethnic Chinese that’s a citizen of another ethnic Chinese majority nation so I’ve encountered this specific type a lot more.
Chientists
(acts confused in French)
I think it’s a slightly different connotation. “China scientists” infers scientists residing in China while not presuming their ethnicity, while “Chinese scientists” implies their ethnicity but not their location.
You literally never hear “America scientists” even if some of them might be from another country. Same with every single other country I can think of, except China.
US scientists works in the same way.
No, it’s people who study fine tableware.
Real talk, why is discussion around people and subjects in China so fucking weird?
If it’s not referring to the entire population when it only applies to the government or a subset of them as a global “the Chinese” or doing silly shit like “China scientists” everyone’s grammatical skills suddenly tank when even broaching a topic even tangential to the PRC.
Whatis?
I don’t remember the scene but it looks like memory from an Android. Not sparkly enough for star trek, maybe terminator 2?
Yeah, but endurance. and accuracy. and longevity. How about those?
And price and maye write more than 1 single bit
Is that fast enough to put an LLM in swap and have decent performance?
Note that this in theory speaks to performance of a non volatile memory. It does not speak to cost.
We already have a faster than NAND non volatile storage in phase change memory . It failed due to expense.
If this thing is significantly more expensive even than RAM, then it may fail even if it is everything it says it is. If it is at least as cheap as ram, it’ll be huge since it is faster than RAM and non volatile.
Swap is indicated by cost, not by non volatile characteristics.
Wow, finally graphene has been cracked. Exciting times for portable low-energy computing
It’s like temu. 100x discount.
This article appeared in my feed just above another article about how China has the world’s first operational thorium reactor. Meanwhile, the US is about to fight a civil war over whether vaccination causes measles and stripping away the last of our social programs in order to get our wealthiest people another 2% subsidy.
China and Russia worked very hard to get these rich stupid people in power.
It really started in 2016 when US security agencies released a joint report showing Russia was spreading misinformation to help Trump win the election.
Surprisingly, the “liberal tears compilations” and “something about an email server people didn’t understand wasn’t actually illegal” actually worked and drowned out the warnings from our security agencies.
I don’t think China will be any better of a world leader tbh.
I see humanity’s future as a boot stepping on a human face forever, unless humanity globally rejects kings, oligarchs, and dictators.
Don’t forget the genius DNC folk, including HRC thought a pied piper strategy of boosting the circus peanut was a good idea.
If the Russians and Chinese did anything it was just capitalizing on an unforced error by the hubris of the centrist. One again, bernie would have won, but that was more distasteful to the ruling class than fascism.
Oddly, the DNC’s position on the republican candidate in the circus that was the 2016 primary wasn’t likely all that influential or determinative.
trump figured out that running a political campaign as entertainment and leveraging the power of, well, just lying about everything was possible in the modern media environment. republicans had been working for decades on tilling the ground for an authoritarian that they could manage, but got themselves owned instead. Oops.
You rely on professional fabricators of misinformation to tell you the truth about who is producing misinformation? Don’t fall for crude propaganda. When empires end they do some self-destructive things. It’s normal.
This is observable reality.
You should pay attention
It really started in 2016 when US security agencies released a joint report showing Russia was spreading misinformation to help Trump win the election.
Compare russia to the British and consider who is the bigger villain.
Can we not bother deciding who was the biggest nightmare, and instead focus on finding models for the best countries.
I am so sick of the “at least the USSR had…” or “at least China does…” conversation. Can’t we have a “Finland has high happiness, broad socialist protections, and a fast moving economy” kind of conversations.
But that would be productive and worthwhile, to talk about actual policy or PISA findings or how to move forward to make the world a better place! Wouldn’t you rather bicker about old enmities in the context of nationalism?
The point is that foreigners influence elections all the time, all over the world.
Americans meddle all the time, but are the only one that start crying when it’s done to them.
Americans have a history of the most insidious manipulations in the politics of other nations - did you see their Sec. of state try commemorate the CIA backed coup of Cuba.
About “crying” over foreign interference, you are wrong. In the last 4 years France, Canada, Germany, Romania, Sri-Lanka, Australia, all of the Baltic nations andore have a had credible complaints of attempts from foreign nations trying to use propaganda and more to influence elections.
Let’s not try to convince ourselves than only the Americans are misbehaving.
Not my future, I will try to die in a way that even an omnipotent AI can’t bring back.
Gonna make sure to bring as many of those fuckers with me as possible.
Fuck the idiotic Americans that won’t bother to immunize, never mind understanding science as a whole.
No. We don’t want them to breed…
We don’t want them to cough super ebola or space flu on us either
By tuning the “Gaussian length” of the channel, the team achieved two‑dimensional super‑injection, which is an effectively limitless charge surge into the storage layer that bypasses the classical injection bottleneck.
They finally stole the French édriseur technology I see
They’re just copying the description of the turbo encabulator.
Which episode of Star Trek is this from?
The one where there’s a problem with the holodeck.
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
It’s the one where Barclay gets obsessed with his Holodeck program.
I don’t think so. I just rewatched it. It’s the one where Data finds out something to make himself more human. Picard tells him something profound and moving.
I think I saw that one. It’s the one where Ricker sits down on a chair like he’s mounting a small horse.
Maybe it’s the episode where Picard does this:
Link to the actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08839-w
The repro and verification will take time. Months or even years. Don’t trust anyone who says it’s definitely real or definitely bunk. Time will tell.
Speaking of, did you hear there’s a new room temperature super conductor?
This sounds like that material would be more useful in high performance radars, not as flash memory
It‘s likely BS anyway. Maybe it’s just me but reading about another crazy breakthrough from China every single day during this trade war smells fishy. Because I‘ve seen the exact same propaganda strategy during the pandemic when relations between China and the rest of the world weren‘t exactly the best. A lot of those headlines coming from there are just claims about flashy topics with very little substance or second guessing. And the papers releasing the stories aren‘t exactly the most renowned either.
It’s definitely possible they’re amplifying these developments to maintain confidence in the Chinese market, but I doubt they’re outright lying about the discoveries. I think it’s also likely that some of what they’ve been talking about has been in development for a while and that China is choosing now to make big reveals about them.
