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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 Hard Disk Drives Recovery: Leading The Way In Storage
White Papers In a data storage world dominated by paper and magnetic tape and punch cards, RAMAC was the world's first commercial hard-disk drive. The development and evolution of hard-disk drives is one of the outstanding technological success stories of the...
[October 5, 2006, 0:00]
Magnetic Memory Set To Charge The Market
News MRAM is made by sandwiching layers of magnetic metal compounds between two rows of wires, the one on top running at ninety degrees to the one underneath. With the right magnetic material in the middle, its electrical resistance depends on its...
[February 12, 2003, 8:16]
Magnetic Tape Prototype Makes Data Leap
News Magnetic tape isn't dead, IBM and Fuji Photo would like you to know. Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Fuji Photo have devised a prototype storage system utilising a dual-side magnetic tape that can hold 6.67 billion bits of data per...
[May 16, 2006, 9:05]
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]
Secure Deletion Of Data From Magnetic And Solid-State Memory
White Papers One avenue of attack is the recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media or random-access memory. With the use of increasingly sophisticated encryption systems, an attacker wishing to gain access to sensitive data is forced to look...
[March 1, 2004, 23:00]
Technological Impact Of Magnetic Hard Disk Drives On Storage Systems
White Papers Magnetic hard disk drives have undergone vast technological improvements since their introduction as storage devices over 45 years ago, and these improvements have had a marked influence on how disk drives are applied and what they can do.
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
AIT WORM & SAIT WORM Magnetic Tape Products: Sec Rule 17a-4(f) Compliance Assessment
White Papers The focus of the independent evaluation conducted by Cohasset Associates in this White Paper is on how the AIT WORM and SAIT WORM magnetic tape products developed by Sony Electronics satisfy the applicable conditions of Rule 17a-4(f).
[September 27, 2005, 0:00]
Development Of An Embedded Device Driver For A Magnetic Stripe Reader
White Papers A large organization that produced hand held devices needed to develop an embedded systems device driver for their magnetic stripe reader. Wipro Technologies who foresaw that mobile computing for portable devices would be the emerging technology of...
[April 16, 2007, 0:00]
Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Technology
White Papers An exciting new magnetic recording technology has been introduced into hard drive storage. Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) offers the customer higher capacities, improved reliability and robustness, and a very positive outlook for future...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Researchers Warm To Magnetic Plastic
News Although magnetic plastics have been reported before, they have only worked at extremely low temperatures. Researcher Naveed Zaidi told the magazine that although the compound is as yet weakly magnetic there is much room for improvement.
[September 1, 2004, 18:25]
Projecting The Cost Of Magnetic Disk Storage Over The Next 10 Years
White Papers There are many configurations of magnetic disks available. The simplest disk configuration is in the PC (Personal Computer) on one's desk. In the preceding table, this configuration is assigned an approximate relative cost of 1X.
[April 28, 2004, 0:00]
Dell Reliability Helps University Of Michigan Create A Virtual Global Magnetic Observatory Network
White Papers Using two Dell Precision Workstations interconnected to work as a RAID system, the team developed a Virtual Global Magnetic Observatory network. The Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences of the University of Michigan needed a...
[October 4, 2005, 0:00]
IBM Changes Directions In Magnetic Memory
News At IBM, manipulating magnetic fields are out, and spin-polarised electrons are in. In STT-RAM, an electric current is applied to a magnet to change the direction of the magnetic field. The direction of the magnetic field (up-and-down or left-to...
[August 20, 2007, 9:45]
Magnetic Memory Moves On
News This process involves lining up the drive's magnetic crystals on their ends, like straws in a box, increasing the density of bits on the drive. Toshiba and NEC unveiled a paper this week that showed methods to cut down power consumption and size...
[December 17, 2004, 9:45]
Magnetic Tape Prototype Makes Data Leap
Talkback Random Read Write for 300,000 years. Ferroelectric densities of 2D .2 to .5 Petabits = 200 to 500 Terabits sq.in. D 40 Petabits = 40,000 to 100 Petabits = 100,000 Terabits cu.cm.or 2D 200,000 to 500,000 Gigabits sq.in.
[May 17, 2006, 1:30]
CeBIT 2002: Mira Gets Rugged And Magnetic
News At this week's CeBIT trade fair, Philips and Tatung are showing off some of the first products based on the Mira tablet device, first promoted by Microsoft at last year's Consumer Electronics Show. Mira is designed to act as an ordinary PC flat...
[March 13, 2002, 16:08]
Performance Media: Tweaking Magnetic Capabilities
White Papers Seagate continues to prove its technology leadership in the hard disc-drive business by tweaking the reliability and performance of its oriented aluminum substrate discs. Available throughout Seagate’s entire product line, oriented aluminum media...
[April 28, 2004, 0:00]
Hands-free Kit Reduces Electro Magnetic Exposure
News Health fears over hands-free mobiles were dismissed by a new Government report published Monday. The report commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) confirms that using Personal Hands Free (PHF) kit with mobile phones...
[August 8, 2000, 17:01]
Simulations Of Magnetic Materials With MDGRAPE-2
White Papers The use of accelerator hardware for micromagnetics simulations is described, along with some initial results. The accelerator calculates the dipole interactions at 400 gigaflops, allowing large simulations to be performed with arbitrary geometries.
[March 23, 2006, 23:00]
