"Next-generation memories--such as FRAM, MRAM, PCM and others--are supposed to replace today's DRAMs and flash memory technologies. Current memory devices are expected to hit the wall, as the floating-gate reaches its physical limits.

Today's flash memories are expected to scale at least to the 22-nm node, said Giulio Casagrande, director of advanced R&D in the Memory Products Group at STMicroelectronics Inc. DRAM scaling could end "even sooner," he told EE Times.

But after years of R&D, next-generation memories are still struggling to get off the starting blocks, due to manufacturing problems, cost and a lack of applications."

 Lack of apps is their problem....

 If the devices are not electrically based....they can only be utilized for storage or page swapping.

 We're looking at more than storage with regard to flash or any electrically based memory matrix.

 It's all a matter of how you want to use the memory....just use it directly no boot..... or boot.

Take your choice. 

doni