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Article: Magnetic memory makes logic.
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- TRN Newswire
- Article date:
- October 6, 2003
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TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH NEWS
By Eric Smalley - Today's computers shunt information among three elements: processors that manipulate information to carry out computations, random access memory (RAM) chips that retrieve information quickly, and magnetic disk drives that store information while the computer is off.
Combining any of these elements would make computers simpler and faster.
Magnetic random access memory (MRAM), slated to become commercially available next year, is as fast as random access memory chips, but is also non volatile, meaning it retains information when a computer is turned off.
Researchers from the Paul Drude ...