Inventor of GMR Bids To Shake Up Storage, Again

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @08:21AM from the dark-horse-in-search-of-a-racetrack dept.

Nrbelex writes "Stuart S. P. Parkin, an I.B.M. research fellow largely unknown outside a small fraternity of physicists, thinks he is poised to bring about a breakthrough that could increase the amount of data stored on a chip or a hard drive by a factor of a hundred. This is the man who pioneered exploiting the giant magnetoresistance effect in the 90s, causing disk storage to jump ahead of the Moore's Law curve. If he proves successful in developing 'racetrack memory,' he will create a universal computer memory, one that can potentially replace DRAM and flash memory chips, and make a 'disk drive on a chip' possible. It could begin to replace flash memory in three to five years, scientists say."

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Re:kdawson tell me... by megaditto · 2007-09-11 12:31 · Score: 0, Troll

Stuart S. P. Parkin is a foreigner stealing American jobs.

See his biography here: http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/bio.parkin.html

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