A team of researchers has achieved Develop a flash memory device that has broken the storage speed record: It is capable of storing information at a speed of one bit every 400 peaks. The device, which according to Tom’s Hardware have called PoXit is able to overcome in speed even to volatile memory devices, which take between 1 and 10 nanoseconds to store a information bit. A posecond is the thousandth of a nanosecond.
Unlike non -volatile memory devices, such as POX, those of volatile memory, such as the DRAM, which lose the data they house when the energy supply they receive is interrupted, they are not indicated to work in low consumption systems. Non -volatile memory devices are energetically efficient, but do not offer rapid enough access speeds that AI demands. Until now.
The researchers who have developed the device, from the Fudan University of Shanghai, developed a flash memory with a two -dimensional graphene channel DIRAC. The results obtained, registered in a recording for their validation, have allowed them to exceed the speed limits that there were so far in terms of storage of information and access to it.
Nature magazine has already published the details of the discovery, and according to Zhou Peg, head of the Researchers team that has developed the device«using AI algorithms to optimize the proof conditions of the process«They have achieved «Move significantly in this innovation and lay the foundations for their future applications«. The team has collaborated during the POX R&D phases with device manufacturing companies.
Liu Chunsen, researcher at the State main laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems of the Fudan Universityhe stressed for his part that «The increase in speed is a great avabce, completely overcoming an existing theoretical bottleneck in technological storage frames«.
In addition, he pointed out that the computing of large AI models depends mainly on GPU chips, which can make 33.5 billion floating point operations per second, while the writing or erased speed that they have associated is still at the microsecond level. Pox, he says, is designed precisely to meet the needs of the high speed computing of the GPU chips.
On the other hand, Liu recalled that the team has so far been able to «Develop a fully functional, small -scale chip. The next step implies its integration into existing computers and smartphones. In this way, by deploying local models on phones and computers, there will be no problems with bottlenecks, such as delay and overheating caused by existing storage technology«.
