I am, however, not fully convinced this is so. This made me think that the XIP part is somehow due to the ability to access every individual bit, NOR being random. Also, NOR offers true random access (due to the NOR gates, which are essentially parallel and not serial, if I understood it correctly), as opposed to NAND, which typically works on the level of words, serially, not individual bits. The way I see it, NOR memory is suitable for program storage, instead of data storage, because it has fast read times, and horrendously slow write/erase times. I think I understand the basic pros and cons of both kinds. While both of the links were extremely informative and well-written, neither explicitly satisfied my curiosity. I've been reading up on NOR and NAND memories in search of an answer as to why exactly is NOR a XIP (eXecute In Place), and NAND is not.
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