IBM's Phase Change Memory stores three bits per cell

in hardware on 2016-09-30 11:29 (#1WH1A)

IBM has developed a prototype PCM - Phase Change Memomory - chip capable of storing three different values per cell instead of the normal 2. They also developed a new control mechanism capable of dealing with drift (which they say the new type of PCM chip does not experience).

I, for one, welcome our new ternary overlords.

Re: Itâ€™s not ternary (Score: 2, Interesting)

by vanderhoth@pipedot.org on 2016-10-03 18:15 (#1WVP8)

So essentially is this a memory increase from 2-bits to 8-bits per-cell that's still going to be binary, or does that mean we'll be moving to octodecimal data?

I think it's a positive change in either case.

Note, I didn't RTFA, yet.