Freescale first to market with MRAM chips

Remember those new MRAM (magnetoresistive RAM) chips the industry's been working on for the last decade or so? Well Freescale stepped away from all that UWB bidness long enough to develop what they're calling the world's first commercially available MRAM chips to combine RAM's endurance with the hard disk's ability to keep data while powered down. What about Flash memory you ask? Kicked to the curb son, since MRAM (or universal memory) is faster than flash and doesn't degrade over time. Only don't expect these new chips to hit your price sensitive consumer electonics just yet. The first markets for MRAM will most likely be automotive or industrial settings where durability is critical. So hold tight and let the invisible hand work some magic, mkay?

[Corporate @ Jul 10th 2006 9:56AM]

Sounds good.

I'm willing to wait for these.

[pos @ Jul 10th 2006 10:32AM]

I somehow feel that Apple might just be kicking themselves, what with ridding themselves of the Freescale G4's. They cud have been the first to push this new tech into a hard driveless mac at an "affordable" price =)

[John Sununu @ Jul 10th 2006 12:12PM]

In Korea, only old people use MRAM.

[Jordan @ Jul 10th 2006 1:40PM]

pos - Why would Apple need to use/buy G4s to use MRAM?

I am sure that Freescale would gladly sell Apple MRAM when it becomes available.

[Frank Tinsley @ Jul 10th 2006 4:25PM]

This technology could some day change the way computers work. Imagine everything you have on your hard drive now always loaded in RAM. Imagine a computer that NEVER LOADS. RAM and storage are one. If these things eventually got really high capacity, really fast, and really cheap the computer industry would be flipped on its head.

[Mark Sly @ Apr 23rd 2008 11:36AM]

Yeah, but if Micro$oft is still writing the software for these MRAM computers, they'll still need to be reset every day or two... ^_^;

[Joao Inacio @ Jul 11th 2006 4:05AM]

what happened to ovonyx?

last i heard intel was dropping some ca$h flow on that tech.

[Matt @ Aug 14th 2006 11:25AM]

Just to expand on this post a little... One of our analysts at Semiconductor Insights provided some illustrated teardown analysis of the Freescale MRAM, as well as the ill-fated Cypress MRAM.

http://www.semiconductorblog.com/default.asp?Display=3

[i want MRAM @ Nov 14th 2007 10:22AM]

The "MRAM" link on the first line is not to a post about MRAM... =)