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Intel Claims Its Magical New Memory Will Speed Your Computer Up for Cheap

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ejs:
The concept sounds similar to what Intel tried before (with flash memory on motherboards):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Memory

Chrysalis:
on the flip side these are been considered game changers for enterprise use.

375gig variant for a few thousand dollars, much cheaper than 375 gig of ram and because its persistent it will be a game changer for things like heavy database usage, since caching to ram without writing to persistent storage frequently is too risky, but as these are persistent they can be used for significant performance boosts.

mteven:
If technology is cheap, it could replace SSD drives.

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