News Researchers tweak a virus into building phase-change memories

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    Looks like a great way to produce bulk nanowires, but you still need a way to actually lay those nanowires into a useful structure (same way a big block of Silicon is not a CPU, patterning is the hard part).
    There's that whole "Optane" thing that seems to have enough demand to sell every chip produced...
     
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    If only Optane was phase-change memory, you'd have a point. To quote Wikipedia: 'Intel has stated that 3D XPoint does not use a phase-change or memristor technology.' (It does go on to say 'although this is disputed by independent reviewers,' but if Intel says it ain't PCM that's good enough for me.)
     
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    Yeah, Intel and Micron can claim that the 3D xPoint is totally-not-PCM, but if it walks like an Ovonic Memory Switch, looks like an Ovonic Memory Switch, quacks like an Ovonic Memory Switch, came from a company owning the IP to the Ovonic Memory Switch, and is fabricated on the obtuse Chalcogenide process, I'm going to call it an Ovonic Memory Switch.
     
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    Another technology 'predicted' by Star Trek.
     
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