Samsung went to Flash Memory Summit 2022, made in California and banged on the table. He did not do it by advertising a cell phone, tablet, appliance or any other electronic device. South Korean manufacturers presented their new SSD of “semantic memory”as reported Xataka.
What is this? Basically a hard drive. Why do they call them semantic memory? It is therein lies his specialty. In operation, it promises to offer speeds that exceed by 20 the performance of traditional hard drives.
And how do they intend to run this wonderful performance through the engine that brings electronic devices to life? Well, as reported by the aforementioned media “combining the benefits of traditional storage with the dynamic access of DRAM memories”.
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Don’t worry, that’s what we’re going to try. The hard drives you are presenting Samsung they take away the best of two technologies that operate separately in one machine. In this new device they work together.
First of all, there is traditional storage, that of common SSDs, which operate by saving and accessing data for long periods even if the computer is turned off.
While DRAM memories They are the ones in charge of reaching the information more quickly without the need to store it, since after it performs its function it is completely emptied.
These two mechanisms are what Samsung intends to link in a single device. They do this by incorporating an interconnection technology. Specifically one called Leveraging Compute Express Link (CXL).
This development works together with a DRAM cache, an element that makes a common hard drive work together with fast operation without storage. So, this increases the response speed.
How fast? As we have been telling you, 20 times faster and with less latency. It is ideal for running your processes during artificial intelligence developments.
Once released, Samsung SSDs with “semantic memory” would not be targeting ordinary users; but in principle they would go to the professional sectors of technology.