hairyfeet writes, "The EETimes describes the new Samsung memory, phase-change RAM, called PRAM. Samsung is dubbing it 'Perfect RAM' because it is thirty times faster than NOR flash, ten times more durable — and cheaper to produce, to boot." 512-Mbit modules should be available sometime in 2008. None of the initial coverage goes much beyond Samsung's press release. At the same time, Samsung also announced a 40-nm, 32-Mbit NAND flash device.

New "PRAM" 30 Times Faster Than Flash

Sweet, cheaper and more powerful. This was comming for a while

Still, I wonder about write speed. NOR is pretty slow in write speed in comparison to NAND, and alot more expensive. How will this compare?

??? Where does it say PRAM will user NOR and not NAND?
Blah, I have no idea what these acronyms mean, I barely know what PRAM is supposed to replace, all I know is that Flash has something to do with "flash drives"
Oh well, there is something to do this I don't like, maybe the name PRAM or something but I just don't care - maybe I will when I use one of these and see high capacity flash drives becoming something usable. (ever tried filling a 4GB flash drive in one go? Very slow, especially if there are many files)