A Magnetic Memory Alternative to Hard Disk

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday July 10, 2006 @01:56AM from the read-from-the-magnets dept.

Dr Occult writes "Finally, a magnetic memory chip has been manufactured in volume and released by the U.S. company Freescale. Christened MRAM (magnetoresistive random-access memory),this chip will hold information even after power has been switched off. From the BBC news article: 'Unlike flash memory, which also can keep data without power, Mram has faster read and write speeds and does not degrade over time,' and 'MRAM chips could one day be used in PCs to store an operating system, allowing computers to start up faster when switched on.'"

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Freescale's PR by austinpoet · 2006-07-10 01:59 · Score: 5, Informative

Information about the product from the Freescale Press Release
Re:NOT a hard drive alternative by TransEurope · 2006-07-10 02:07 · Score: 5, Informative

_Today_ they are larger. But tomorrow Freescale

plans to shrink their new chips (29nm) under the

scales of the future standard 6T-SRAMs (still 45nm).

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/75243