engadget.com - 12/18/2008
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If you're a frequent reader you're surely well aware of the potential of spin torque transfer memory, or STT-MRAM , and how spin-polarized magnetic currents (and the electrons they love to caress) might hold the potential to revolutionize storage as we know it. If you can't get your noggin ...
eetimes.com - 12/18/2008
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eetimes.com —
SAN FRANCISCO -- At this week's International Electron
Devices Meeting (IEDM) here, IBM Corp. will provide a...
sneak preview of its MRAM, based on spin torque transfer (STT) technology. In a paper, IBM will describe the key element of a 4-Kbit test ...
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IBM gives update on STT-based MRAM
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IBM’s fancy new STT-MRAM prototype that holds 4Kb of data
CrunchGear —
... of data for around 10 years without any electricity flowing through its veins.
The main idea behind MRAM is that, eventually, the technology will be cheaper to produce, will run faster and more efficiently.
But yeah, this stuff is years away from getting out of the labs—think perpetual Google beta—so it’s best to keep some distance now. Who knows, by then an asteroid may have crashed into the planet and destroyed all signs of life!
via Engadget
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