China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech (interestingengineering.com)
from Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to technology@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 10:32
https://infosec.pub/post/26901807

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muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee on 19 Apr 10:56 next collapse

Is that fast enough to put an LLM in swap and have decent performance?

jj4211@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 12:35 collapse

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.

tetris11@lemmy.ml on 19 Apr 10:58 next collapse

Wow, finally graphene has been cracked. Exciting times for portable low-energy computing

MuskyMelon@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 10:59 next collapse

Too bad the US can’t import any of it.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 19 Apr 13:00 collapse

they can if they pay 6382538% tariffs.

or was it 29403696%?

errer@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 14:32 next collapse

“These chips are 10,000 times faster, therefore we will increase our tariffs to 10,100%!”

jaxxed@lemmy.ml on 21 Apr 16:28 collapse

That was yesterday. It doubled since then IIRC

CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net on 19 Apr 11:02 next collapse

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.

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the_tab_key@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 12:07 next collapse

They’re just copying the description of the turbo encabulator.

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org on 19 Apr 12:19 next collapse

Which episode of Star Trek is this from?

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Apr 13:39 collapse

The one where there’s a problem with the holodeck.

orclev@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 14:53 collapse

Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

drspod@lemmy.ml on 19 Apr 15:20 collapse

It’s the one where Barclay gets obsessed with his Holodeck program.

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Apr 20:47 collapse

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.

geomela@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 21:56 collapse

I think I saw that one. It’s the one where Ricker sits down on a chair like he’s mounting a small horse.

hakunawazo@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 08:14 collapse

Maybe it’s the episode where Picard does this:
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WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today on 20 Apr 08:29 collapse

Ah yes, the hide your boner maneuver.

psoul@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 06:13 collapse

They finally stole the French édriseur technology I see

boonhet@lemm.ee on 19 Apr 11:14 next collapse

AI AI AI AI

Yawn

Wake me up if they figure out how to make this cheap enough to put in a normal person’s server.

Zip2@feddit.uk on 19 Apr 11:23 next collapse

normal person’s server.

I’m pretty sure I speak for the majority of normal people, but we don’t have servers.

peteyestee@feddit.org on 19 Apr 11:55 next collapse

Ikr…Dude thinks we’re restaurants or something.

notabot@lemm.ee on 19 Apr 12:30 next collapse

You… you don’t? Surely there’s some mistake, have you checked down the back of your cupboard? Sometimes they fall down there. Where else do you keep your internet?

Appologies, I’m tired and that made more sense in my head.

Zip2@feddit.uk on 19 Apr 12:57 collapse

Well obviously the internet is kept in a box, and it’s wireless. The elders of the internet let me borrow it occasionally.

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BlueKey@fedia.io on 19 Apr 14:48 collapse
umbraroze@slrpnk.net on 19 Apr 13:42 next collapse

Yeah, when you’re a technology enthusiast, it’s easy to forget that your average user doesn’t have a home server - perhaps they just have a NAS or two.

(Kidding aside, I wish more people had NAS boxes. It’s pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives. In a good day. I do have a USB floppy drive and a DVD drive just in case.)

KnightontheSun@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 14:00 next collapse

Hello fellow home labber! I have a home built xpenology box, proxmox server with a dozen vm’s, a hackentosh, and a workstation with 44 cores running linux. Oh, and a usb floppy drive. We are out here.

I also like long walks in Oblivion.

neatobuilds@lemmy.today on 19 Apr 15:08 collapse

Man oblivion walks are the best until a crazy woman comes at you trying to steal your soul with a fancy sword

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 19 Apr 15:54 next collapse

lol yeah, the lemmy userbase is NOT an accurate sample of the technical aptitude of the general population 😂

pivot_root@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 16:02 collapse

It’s pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives.

Equally disheartening is knowing that both of those have a shelf-life. Old USB flash drives are more durable than the TLC/QLC cells we use today, but 15 years sitting unpowered in a box doesn’t have very good prospects.

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com on 20 Apr 12:01 collapse

“Normal person” is a modifier of server. It does not state any expectation of every normal person having a server. Instead, it sets expectation that they are talking about servers owned by normal people. I have a server. I am norm… crap.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 19 Apr 15:53 collapse

You can get a Coral TPU for 40 bucks or so.

You can get an AMD APU with a NN-inference-optimized tile for under 200.

Training can be done with any relatively modern GPU, with varying efficiency and capacity depending on how much you want to spend.

What price point are you trying to hit?

boonhet@lemm.ee on 19 Apr 16:52 next collapse

What price point are you trying to hit?

With regards to AI?. None tbh.

With this super fast storage I have other cool ideas but I don’t think I can get enough bandwidth to saturate it.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 19 Apr 17:27 next collapse

You’re willing to pay $none to have hardware ML support for local training and inference?

Well, I’ll just say that you’re gonna get what you pay for.

bassomitron@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 18:46 collapse

No, I think they’re saying they’re not interested in ML/AI. They want this super fast memory available for regular servers for other use cases.

boonhet@lemm.ee on 20 Apr 10:07 collapse

Precisely.

caseyweederman@lemmy.ca on 20 Apr 13:26 collapse

I have a hard time believing anybody wants AI. I mean, AI as it is being sold to them right now.

boonhet@lemm.ee on 20 Apr 14:53 collapse

I mean the image generators can be cool and LLMs are great for bouncing ideas off them at 4 AM when everyone else is sleeping. But I can’t imagine paying for AI, don’t want it integrated into most products, or put a lot of effort into hosting a low parameter model that performs way worse than ChatGPT without a paid plan. So you’re exactly right, it’s not being sold to me in a way that I would want to pay for it, or invest in hardware resources to host better models.

barsoap@lemm.ee on 19 Apr 19:06 collapse

With regards to AI?. None tbh.

TBH, that might be enough. Stuff like SDXL runs on 4G cards (the trick is using ComfyUI, like 5-10s/it), smaller LLMs reportedly too (haven’t tried, not interested). And the reason I’m eyeing a 9070 XT isn’t AI it’s finally upgrading my GPU, still would be a massive fucking boost for AI workloads.

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today on 20 Apr 08:31 collapse

I just use pre-made AI’s and write some detailed instructions for them, and then watch them churn out basic documents over hours…I need a better Laptop

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org on 19 Apr 11:17 next collapse

Well, I'll never see it, unless TI or another American company designs their own version.

Viri4thus@feddit.org on 19 Apr 11:32 collapse

Or they can do what they normally do, steal it and then sue to be considered the original invento/founder and then make a Hollywood film about how they invented it/found it.

peteyestee@feddit.org on 19 Apr 11:56 collapse

It’s called an iPod, it’s not an mp3 player.

They are called airpods, they are not earbuds.

vegetvs@kbin.earth on 19 Apr 12:29 collapse

It's called an airplane, not an aeroplane.

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AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip on 19 Apr 11:47 next collapse

Brother, have you heard of buses? Even INSIDE cpus/socs bus speeds are a limitation. Also i fucking hate how the first thing people mention now is how ai could benefit from a jump in computing power.

Edit: I havent dabbled that much in high speed stuff yet but isnt the picosecond range so fast that the capacitance of simple traces and connectors between chips influence the rising and falling edge of chips?

xthexder@l.sw0.com on 19 Apr 22:06 collapse

That’s pretty much my understanding. Most of the advancements happened in memory speeds are related to the physical proximity of the memory and more efficient transmission/decoding.

GDDR7 chips for example are packed as close as physically possible to the GPU die, and have insane read speeds of 28 Gbps/pin (and a 5090 has a 512-bit bus). Most of the limitation is the connection between GPU and RAM, so speeding up the chips internally 1000x won’t have a noticeable impact without also improving the memory bus.

fullsquare@awful.systems on 19 Apr 12:13 next collapse

This sounds like that material would be more useful in high performance radars, not as flash memory

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 12:38 collapse

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.

LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 19 Apr 14:08 collapse

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.

vegetvs@kbin.earth on 19 Apr 12:36 next collapse

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 19 Apr 15:32 collapse

Whatis?

easily3667@lemmus.org on 19 Apr 16:39 collapse

I don’t remember the scene but it looks like memory from an Android. Not sparkly enough for star trek, maybe terminator 2?

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 19 Apr 15:31 next collapse

Clickbait article with some half truths. A discovery was made, it has little to do with Ai and real world applications will be much, MUCH more limited than what’s being talked about here, and will also likely still take years to come out

Emmie@lemm.ee on 19 Apr 18:58 collapse

The key word is China, let us not kid ourselves. Otherwise it would be just another pop sci click but now it can be an ammunition in the fight with imperialist degenerated west or some bs like that

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 24 Apr 05:20 collapse

Heh?

minoscopede@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 15:49 next collapse

Link to the actual paper: 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.

primemagnus@lemmy.ca on 19 Apr 19:28 next collapse

Damn. I just pulled all my stock out quantum computing and thru it all into this…

anonApril2025@lemmy.zip on 19 Apr 19:29 collapse

Easy when you have zero

Jolteon@lemmy.zip on 20 Apr 04:56 collapse

Speaking of, did you hear there’s a new room temperature super conductor?

bassomitron@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 18:41 next collapse

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: enterprisestorageforum.com/…/life-expectancy-of-a…

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.

schema@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 19:07 collapse

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.

bassomitron@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 20:23 collapse

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.

KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee on 19 Apr 20:46 next collapse

Yeah, but endurance. and accuracy. and longevity. How about those?

AceBonobo@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 23:26 collapse

And price and maye write more than 1 single bit

InFerNo@lemmy.ml on 19 Apr 21:04 next collapse

China scientists

So, Chinese scientists?

DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.de on 19 Apr 21:23 next collapse

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

realitista@lemm.ee on 20 Apr 00:18 next collapse

The wording of the headline would be different if it were trying to convey that.

simplejack@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 05:50 collapse

Someone doing research on China is a chiologist.

Same as someone doing research on biology is a biologist.

hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Apr 07:14 collapse

Biology -> biolog -> biologist

China -> chin -> chinist?

Mooseford@lemmy.today on 19 Apr 21:26 next collapse

No they are people who study the China Science.

Lemminary@lemmy.world on 19 Apr 21:38 next collapse

Me stutter? No think so!

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muhyb@programming.dev on 19 Apr 22:24 collapse

Him legend.

Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu on 19 Apr 22:09 next collapse

No, it’s people who study fine tableware.

liquidparasyte@pawb.social on 19 Apr 23:04 next collapse

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.

realitista@lemm.ee on 20 Apr 00:17 next collapse

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.

essteeyou@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 05:51 collapse

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.

realitista@lemm.ee on 20 Apr 08:20 collapse

US scientists works in the same way.

pycorax@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 05:12 next collapse

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.

pHr34kY@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 06:43 next collapse

It’s a reasonable assumption that someone in China is Chinese.

pycorax@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 06:54 collapse

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.

Netux@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 08:32 next collapse

Isreal like that game of pretend. They believe anti zionist Jews are traitors.

saimen@feddit.org on 20 Apr 14:09 collapse

Isn’t that true for every (older) country though?

pycorax@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 14:22 collapse

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.

gwilikers@lemmy.ml on 20 Apr 06:37 collapse

Chientists

FourWaveforms@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 05:26 collapse

(acts confused in French)

conditional_soup@lemm.ee on 19 Apr 22:11 next collapse

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.

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 04:16 next collapse

Fuck the idiotic Americans that won’t bother to immunize, never mind understanding science as a whole.

morriscox@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 17:44 collapse

No. We don’t want them to breed…

FourWaveforms@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 05:25 collapse

We don’t want them to cough super ebola or space flu on us either

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 06:53 collapse

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.

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today on 20 Apr 08:28 next collapse

Not my future, I will try to die in a way that even an omnipotent AI can’t bring back.

derpgon@programming.dev on 20 Apr 08:31 collapse

Gonna make sure to bring as many of those fuckers with me as possible.

Netux@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 08:31 next collapse

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.

caffinatedone@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 14:23 collapse

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.

eleitl@lemm.ee on 20 Apr 09:05 next collapse

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.

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 16:11 collapse

This is observable reality.

You should pay attention

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 12:06 collapse

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.

jaxxed@lemmy.ml on 21 Apr 05:11 collapse

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.

AufusagandR@lemmynsfw.com on 21 Apr 06:06 next collapse

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?

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 08:02 collapse

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.

jaxxed@lemmy.ml on 21 Apr 16:27 collapse

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.

800XL@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 06:56 next collapse

You just fucking wait. Trump is bringing manufacturing to the US. And when that plant opens someday you’ll be so sorry you doubted.

BobSentMe@lemm.ee on 20 Apr 14:32 collapse

I’m sure the foxconn plant in Wisconsin will fire up ANY DAY NOW! drums fingers

800XL@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 03:18 collapse

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.

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today on 20 Apr 08:31 next collapse

Whenever they say X whatever times, I doubt it right away, because they always interpret the statistics in the dumbest ways possible. You have a solar panel that is 28% efficient. There is no way it can be 20x times as efficient, that’s just clickbait.

amon@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 08:17 collapse

trustworthiness = 1/(claimed improvement)

MTK@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 14:30 next collapse

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.

LodeMike@lemmy.today on 20 Apr 17:47 next collapse

Not possible.

WereCat@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 18:40 next collapse

Why? If they looked at how current tech works then they could easily develop the same tech 10000x faster

FourWaveforms@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 05:23 collapse

How

Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works on 21 Apr 05:41 next collapse

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.

WereCat@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 09:14 collapse

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FourWaveforms@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 18:21 collapse

replace “the joke” with “irony” and then send the image to yourself

WereCat@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 18:30 next collapse

and the circle will be complete

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 19:04 collapse

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…

FourWaveforms@lemm.ee on 22 Apr 00:56 collapse

Most Don’t Know This

LuckyPierre@lemm.ee on 21 Apr 06:01 collapse

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.

LodeMike@lemmy.today on 21 Apr 07:03 collapse

No it’s literally impossible without bypassing the speed of light and/or the size of atoms.

GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 03:28 collapse

It’s like temu. 100x discount.