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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. 16M? by wizzardme2000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I dont care how fast it is... What good is 16M?

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  2. Windows by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 0, Troll

    They'll just make the ram blue with white text on it in the future. Windows can even crash a stationary car these days

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  3. Re:Moving parts are soooo 2000 by noidentity · · Score: 0, Troll

    One step closer to replacing HDD, CDROM, DVD and all those other "moving parts" storage devices.

    Funny you mention this, since as far as I know magnetic memory stores bits by altering the orientation of molecules, i.e. moving parts.

  4. MRAM as crash solution by levin · · Score: 0, Troll

    The RAM doesn't crash the computer, but if you don't loose everything in RAM when the computer DOES crash for some other reason (by crash I mean something that needs a reboot here, not when your web browser craps out) then there isn't as much of an incentive to write software that doesn't do this.

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