I believe the likelihood that we're going to see $50 / 8gb type prices from carbon nanotube RAM in the next five years, on the shelf at Best Buy, is zero. I don't believe they're (the companies that license it) going to be able to manufacture millions of high capacity units (multi-gb) at competitive cost, because they're not going to be able to produce it cheaply any time soon.

This is just another in a very long list of proclaimed traditional RAM killers that has been touted, only to come up empty on price or performance. In this case, it's going to be price and capacity. In my opinion this product will turn out to be far more difficult to manufacture at volume than what they're admitting. Five years from now, you still won't be able to buy it at scale for a competitive price.

For them to enable the manufacturing of billions of units of a carbon nanotube product, would practically make them wizards of chemistry. Nowhere on earth are carbon nanotubes being manufactured like that, and there's a good reason for why that is.