I was just looking at Anandtech's review of the ASRock X99 Eggsomething when this little titbit caught my eye...
Or have I just been asleep and these have actually been commonplace for a while now?
I've always followed Everspin closely - they're the MRAM guys who were spun off from Freescale and I've been waiting for MRAM chips to make their way into hard drive/RAID array caches for years (there were some very interesting SSDs out of them a year or two back)... and now it looks like we finally have one! It's a sad state of affairs however when the reviewer doesn't immediately seize on the fact there's an MRAM chip sitting in front of them and go about testing it.On the back of the motherboard is this interesting IC from Everspin, which turns out to be 1MB of cache for the LSI controller. There is scope for ASRock to put extra cache on the motherboard, allowing for higher up RAID controllers, but the cost/competition scenario falls into play again.
Or have I just been asleep and these have actually been commonplace for a while now?