Tom’s Hardware Guide have taken a look into their crystal ball to look at the possible successors to flash memory, which apparently is something of a dying technology (found via DigiCamera.net).

“The opinion is spreading that Flash will be “just good enough” in the near future, but in the medium term will have to be replaced. At least, that is the industry line. Possible weak points of Flash memory are a natural limitation of scalability (where any further reduction of cell size would no longer pay off); write speeds that are too low; and a limited number of write cycles.

Let’s take a look at the state of development of the hottest new technologies - magneto-resistive RAM (MRAM), ovonics unified memory (OUM) and nanocrystals - and make a forecast for the future of memory from now until the end of the decade.”

Website: Tom’s Hardware Guide - Is Flash Heading for Retirement?