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IBM Creates Working "Racetrack Memory"

Posted by kdawson on from the and-they're-off dept.

holy_calamity writes "IBM has created the first working 'racetrack memory' device — a technology we've discussed as it's been touted as the future of memory. It works by writing bits using the magnetic domains inside a very thin wire. Those domain can be shunted along this 'racetrack' and past read heads."

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  1. Need an analogy by Cryophallion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without a proper Light -Distance analogy I have no way of being impressed by the speed of device. Is it knuckle to knee? Nose to toe? People need to know these things!

  2. That's nothin' by Jupiter+Jones · · Score: 5, Funny

    Meh.

    Wake me when they come up with "Hot Dog" or "Crashdown" memory.

    JJ