Non-volatile memory tech breakthrough by Micron and Intel

The new memory technology 3D Xpoint announced jointly by Intel and Micron, which may be difficult to call as semiconductor memory, but surely a solid-state memory, is no doubt a disruptive technology. It is not something still in the labs, if you are special customer of Micron or Intel, you can immediately ask for sample pieces of 128Gb nonvolatile 3D Xpoint memory chip, which is 10 times denser and 1000 times faster than NAND Flash memory and 10x slower than latest DRAM. The benefits of 3D Xpoint very clearly outweigh so much against NAND flash memory used in solid-state memory storage and many other applications. Even in case of NOR Flash memory, the speed and density of this new nonvolatile memory technology is a disruptive one. Well, what about replacing the DRAM and SRAM? this technology is 10 X slower in speed compared to DRAM, and surely much slower than SRAM. So, this is not an one chip replacement alternate to cache memory and the storage. It is for the innovative product designer to find some applications, where there are some possibility of such single memory doing both as cache as well as storage, where data access is more with storage rather than the cache and where the large sets of data is pulled out of storage on most of its processing cycles. The graphics and virtual reality application performance on smart phones, tablets as well as desktop computer...