Micron Co-developing Non-Volatile DRAM
AgigA Tech has found a partner to work to bring its non-volatile DRAMs to market: Micron said that it is co-developing the technology with Cypress Semiconductor's subsidiary.
According to a press releases, Micron said it will be contributing its expertise in memory IC, module development, and manufacturing to result in an NVDIMM module that will use AgigA Tech's ultracapacitor-based power modules. The previously announced AgigA Tech technology combines DRAM and Flash memory in DDR3 form factor modules. When the power supply is cut, the contents in the DRAM are transferred to Flash. The briefly required power supply is provided by AgigA Tech's capacitors. According to the company, the data retention time in the DIMM reaches about 10 years.
Micron said that it has signed an agreement to collaborate to develop and offer nonvolatile DIMM (NVDIMM) products with AgigA Tech, but it did not provide information when such products could become available and how much they would cost.

Just enter standby, insert new battery, resume where you left off. How I wish I could do this now.
that is one of the main reasons people leave their machines on when they leave work - ultimately millions of pc's stay on for nothing every day - think of the wasted energy - the unnecessary green house emissions.
Not really. Battery powered devices such as tablets and smartphones don't require NVRAM
I could also see this as a benefit for RAID controllers that use a rechargable battery backup DRAM solution to preserve contents of it's cache until power is restored to finish writes out to disk. This solution seems more reliable as I've seen numerous batteries go bad on these setups.
I think this would finally make a viable RAMdisk solution should power be lost before the software can write the contents to an image.
Very cool tech!