New research aims to speed up MRAM in a future you'll never live to see (probably)
A month after German researchers announced their latest breakthrough in MRAM design, physicists at Japan's Tohoku University now say that it is possible to use an electric field to manipulate the magnetic domains in a semiconductor -- eliminating moving magnets from MRAM completely. MRAM designed using the electric field method would be faster -- and would use less energy -- than earlier variations on the technology, thus making our lives easier and generally more awesome. Of course, none of this stuff actually exists yet, and it's still got fierce competition from competing ideas (like IBM's racetrack memory), so for now we'll just have to stay content with the four 128k chips we scraped out of our old XT.[Via MRAM Info]
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Dave Chappelle @ Sep 27th 2008 7:41AM
Kool.
Ibm should get this done. in A LONG TIME.
FIRST! in the future hay? i guess in the distant future commercial computers will be able to play Crysis and Doom FLAWLESSLY!
Jon2309 @ Sep 27th 2008 7:55AM
Woah, we live in such an advanced world! Crysis? Properly? Impossible!
KarlW @ Sep 27th 2008 8:22AM
Dude, my iPod can play Doom
Check it: http://idoom.hyarion.com/
Dave Chappelle @ Sep 27th 2008 9:14AM
come on guys.. i was just messing.. take a chill pill... watch one of my skits...
"chappelle's show do ta do do, chappelle's show do ta do do"
Reader @ Sep 27th 2008 10:33AM
I believe everyone was calm. Seems more like that was just a pre-thought out response to what you thought would be a bunch of hate on the usual crysis/doom post.
Someone is here @ Sep 28th 2008 11:47PM
those developers making Crysis had pretty awesome rigs.
and those lucky game testers...
Down @ Sep 27th 2008 8:15AM
WTF is MRAM?
Demersynth @ Sep 27th 2008 8:22AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAM
dlenmn @ Sep 27th 2008 12:45PM
"Of course, none of this stuff actually exists yet"
The antecedent is unclear. The older tech is easy to get your hands on. Granted, I think the largest chip is 4MB, but that's better than IBM's old bubble memory.
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail?name=MR0A16AYS35-ND
Maybe this new tech will be commercialized some day too -- there's no reason for it to be impossible.