Memory geeks
I'm reseaching a company with new technology to store info on ferrous magnets. I'm looking for opinions...
Anyone heard, or have comments on this tech? I guess they have done tests succesfully on 8 bit, and have promise for much better.. and it can be stored almost indefinitly... also fairly inexpensively..
here's a cut and paste..
Although DRAM - used in PCs - is relatively fast and inexpensive, it only holds data for thousandths of a second, requiring 'refresh', a considerable drain on device power. Both DRAM and SRAM are volatile, meaning that data is lost once the device is turned off, while flash memory, which is used in today's mobile devices, is non-volatile and fast. However, flash is relatively expensive and slow, as well as cumbersome to write to.
The MAGRAM chip, in contrast, uses ferromagnetic rods and sensors in a glass substrate to hold data even when the power is switched off for months or years. The chip has a data access rate of 5 nanoseconds (compared with Intel's fastest flash memory read speed of 120 nanoseconds).
What is more, the use of glass substrates, claims the company, halves the number of steps in the chip manufacturing process making it significantly cheaper than existing memory technologies. It could even offer alternative and cheaper ways to make other chips, the company argues. Micromem is talking to several vendors about developing the technology and believes that it will replace flash memory and SRAM in mobile phones and other battery-powered devices in coming years.
Any thoughts appreciated.. I'm accumalating shares rather sgressively
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