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Magnetic memory set to charge the market
News With the right magnetic material in the middle, its electrical resistance depends on its magnetisation -- the magnetoresistive effect -- so the same wires can be used to measure the resistance at the cross-over point and thus read back the...
[February 12, 2003, 8:16]
Magnetic memory chips come to market
News Freescale Semiconductor has won the race to get a magnetic form of computer memory to market, but its high price could keep it from appearing in machines in the near future. In MRAM, a tiny magnetic field is created inside a memory cell on a chip.
[July 11, 2006, 8:20]
Magnetic memory moves on
News Toshiba and NEC unveiled a paper this week that showed methods to cut down power consumption and size in cells of MRAM, a type of memory that may replace conventional computer memory (DRAM) and even flash memory.
[December 17, 2004, 9:45]
IBM changes directions in magnetic memory
News Previously, IBM had been working on a more conventional type of magnetic memory called MRAM. As you make that device smaller (MRAM), you need to increase the magnetic field, and to continue to write [data], it becomes impractical," said Bill...
[August 20, 2007, 9:45]
Magnetic memory moves on
Talkback Magnetic RAM has been made already in Russia. We have the "know-how" - magnetic RAM but no MRAM. If you will have our "know-how" you'll make Magnetic RAM through maximum half past year - by Eugene, Moscow
[December 18, 2004, 20:49]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Motorola Semiconductors — oops, sorry, Freescale — has announced a new magnetic memory chip. This is actually quite exciting; magnetic memory has some chance of becoming the much-awaited universal memory technology, which combines the best features...
[July 14, 2006, 19:15]
IBM tech pushes storage limits
News IBM researchers say they have developed a new technology that will open the way for magnetic memory devices with 10 to 100 times the capacity of today's hard drives. Other types of media -- such as optical drives and solid-state memory cards...
[March 17, 2000, 14:46]
IBM, Infineon show off next-gen memory progress
News IBM and Infineon will jointly present a paper this week that demonstrates how Magnetic Random Access Memory, one of the leading candidates to replace flash memory in mobile phones, could be ready for commercial production by 2005.
[June 10, 2003, 7:38]
Samsung unveils 32GB Flash hard drive
News Samsung is planning to shake up the hard drive market with a 32GB drive that uses NAND flash memory chips rather than magnetic platters. NAND flash memory is typically used today in USB memory sticks, digital music players and digital cameras.
[March 22, 2006, 14:05]
IBM and Infineon to shake up memory market?
News The two companies, which will announce the effort Thursday, hope to speed development of Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) chips. MRAM uses a magnetic charge -- similar to a hard drive's -- to store information, as opposed to the electric charge...
[December 7, 2000, 8:53]
Seagate to make flash-based hard drives
News Seagate Technology, the number-one maker of magnetic hard drives, will start manufacturing hard drives based around flash memory, according to its chief executive officer Bill Watkins. Flash memory makers, however, have been increasing the density...
[August 23, 2007, 16:33]
Photos: Iconic computer innards as art
News Before the integrated circuit, a magnetic core plane, a series of layered wire grids, was used for computer memory. Magnetic core plane memory was considered an improvement over other methods at the time because it could enable a computer to retain...
[July 4, 2007, 15:14]
IBM allies with Stanford for spintronics
News Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) could become the next product where spintronics could be incorporated. Ideally, MRAM will be able to store a substantial amount of data, consume little energy, and operate at a much faster rate than conventional...
[April 26, 2004, 10:30]
New storage technology could replace hard disks...
Blog Solid state magnetic memory first turned up in the 60s as twistor memory, invented by Andrew Bobeck: magnetic tape wrapped in a helix around wires. Bobeck went on to develop bubble memory, which had 'bubbles' of domains on a thin film magnetic...
[May 13, 2007, 12:22]
Hybrid hard drive alliance formed
News Hybrid hard drives contain both traditional magnetic platters — as used in standard hard drives today — and flash memory chips. Hybrid drives will be able to take advantage of a new feature within Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system called...
[January 4, 2007, 16:10]
New spin on transistor heralds chip revolution
News IBM is investigating MRAM -- magnetic memory -- based on the technology, and Stanford University recently announced the discovery of an 'Ohm's Law' for spin. Spintronics is under intensive investigation at many other establishments, because of its...
[September 24, 2003, 17:05]
Wanted: Successor to flash memory
News AMD is the second largest manufacturer of flash memory, after Intel, which has said it is working with several potential replacements, including "plastic" memory, or polymer ferroelectric RAM (PFRAM); Ovonics Unified Memory, which uses the same...
[December 11, 2002, 11:37]
Benchmarks: Windows 7 RTM versus Vista, XP review
Reviews Memory management and cache usage This feature preloads frequently-used applications into memory, so they can be accessed quicker when they're needed. As the graph below shows, after three minutes just over 1GB of memory has been allocated.
[July 30, 2009, 7:39]
Making charity safe for IT administrators
News You don't need to crush or destroy the computer's memory. Memory At one time, people used to degauss (i.e.neutralise the magnetic field) the computer's monitor to ensure the removal of any remnant images.
[April 25, 2005, 12:35]
Recover lost data on Windows systems
White Papers Several factors affect the degree of difficulty you might encounter in recovering your data, including:How the data was deletedWhich file system was used by the drive on which the data was storedWhether the drive uses magnetic, optical, magneto...
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]
