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Motorola Mocks-up MRAM

Posted by michael on from the RAM-tastic dept.

zakath writes "EETimes.com has an article on Motorola's successful presentation of 256-kilobit MRAM at ISSCC this week (Instant-on PCs anyone?). While they're still far from commercial production (2004 is their target) its nice to see some progress being made. Please tell me RAMBUS has no patents for this tech..."

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  1. They aren't going for capacity yet by toastyman · · Score: 5

    I see a lot of posters here saying that "If they double their capacity every x months, that's only 8MB in 4 years" or something...

    When working on a new technology, having a 256kbit chip is just as useful as a 256mbit chip, when all you're doing is proving the technology out. They have no reason to be trying to produce massive dies yet, because all that will do is reduce their yields... and when they're making one-off runs of these to test them, that's a killer.

    I'm certain that by the time they go into production, the capacity will be impressive.