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MRAM Inches Towards Prime Time

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the magnetic-media-exposed dept.

levin writes "According to an article over at EETimes, magnetoresistive RAM chips are getting a little more practical. Infineon Technologies released info on a new 16M MRAM component on Tuesday and the read and write cycle times of this chip make it 'competitive with established DRAM.' How long before nonvolatile memory becomes the solution to crash-prone software rather than better programming?"

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  1. I for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    welcome our new Magnetic Soviet overlords that store us.

    1. Re:I for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Wow, that sucked. You suck!

  2. Re:Hopefully never. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You turn it off in the first place?

    You upgrade hardware with the power on?

  3. rather than better programming by thing2b · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you want "better programming", send your programming jobs to new zealand and not india

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  4. Re:What an asinine question. by levin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hello. What do you think -hard disks- are?

    A lot slower than MRAM and not truly practical as primary memory.

    Non-volatile memory has nothing to do with 'protecting from bad programming'

    It shouldn't, but that doesn't mean people won't use it to write one good recovery tool and then sloppy code from there on out. This was the original point of my asinine question.

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