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At this point, any conjectures about 3D XPoint are based on a short press conference, and reading between the lines of what I think the execs were hinting. The reality is many years away, so don't toss your DRAM or SSD just yet.
Graphics technology lives and dies by memory bandwidth, and 3D XPoint just won't cut the mustard, period, for graphics loads. People also aren't taking fewer photos at lower resolutions. We're going to need bulk storage for the foreseeable future, and that's going to come from SSDs and even hard drives.
Still, it's quite possible that in a few years, your typical consumer PC will have nothing but a 3D XPoint device. When off, no power will be consumed, as 3D XPoint won't need power to refresh it like today's LPDDR3. And when you go to start up your browser, Photoshop, or yes, even Adobe Acrobat, it'll snap on almost instantly, because it was never really ever "closed."
It's close to being true.