Micron Technology says it has developed a new hybrid memory technology that the company says will eclipse the performance of existing memory chips by 20 fold. Speaking to CNET, Brian M. Shirley, vice president of DRAM Solutions at Micron described how its development successfully breaks through the "memory wall" to deliver "a staggering amount of DRAM bandwidth directly to the processor."

While there wasn't much in the way of technical details at the time of writing, it would appear that Micro has added a controller chip right into the memory substrate to overcome the traditional bottleneck between system memory and the CPU, creating what is in effect a very high-speed bus with a direct line to the processor. 

The article doesn't say so, but I would presume that support for this technology must be incorporated at the system board or CPU level for it to work. As one of the world's largest manufacturers of memory chips though, Micron is certainly in a good position to push the technology into reality.

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