As yet another nanotechnology takes the long walk toward market, Nantero’s NRAM, some wise words are reported in the New York Times: “Flash memory is now so inexpensive, he added, that innovators will have a hard time displacing it from all but the most demanding applications even if they surpass it technically.”
A similar situation exists with most competitors to silicon CMOS its just so cheap and well integrated that it will probably be around for another thirty years. Nanotechnology will just have to learn to peacefully coexist for a while.