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russdill on July 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3D Xpoint memory: Faster-than-flash storage unveil...

There is an entire family of memory elements who's resistance is modified in order to store data. RRAM/ReRAM, CBRAM, PCM, MRAM, as well as many others.

dooptroop on July 29, 2015 [–]

I suppose "resistive" in this context relates to the method used to read the memory, not so much how this change of resistance is implemented.

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