Right, modern CPUs can do 50 gigaflops per core. There&#x27;s absolutely no chance we&#x27;re going to have non-volatile storage that can do hundreds of billions of IOPS any time soon (if only because you won&#x27;t be able to get that much data over PCI-express).<p>Further given you can saturate 16 lanes of PCIe when talking to a GPU there&#x27;s no reason you shouldn&#x27;t be able to do the same for storage, it&#x27;s just a matter of having the right abstractions and the right kind of thinking like you&#x27;re saying.<p>It sounds more like storage and RAM are going to converge (and people are still learning to deal with how slow RAM is compared to the CPU these days).