apnews.myway.com — For decades, we have put up with one form or another of drawbacks in RAM technology. DRAM requires power, and refresh. Flash has a limited lifetime. CMOS requires power and isn't very dense. MRAM steps up to the plate: No maintenance power, 100% retention, high density. Woot!
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carlosreyesJul 10, 2006
Would it take longer for the computer to fully turn off though? (as in delete the RAM for extra security or for one of those "you must restart your computer to enable blah blah blah")
l0rdn1k0nJul 10, 2006
wtf? memory that can retain data after shutdown is no longer RAM. it's basically a flash drive.plus, what if your computer was stolen?all the data in MRAM would still be there.
xstaticJul 10, 2006
Back to core memory?<a class="user" href="http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/core.html">http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/core.html</a>
intilli4Jul 10, 2006
Magnetic Ram has got to be one of the most amazing things to come out. I just hope the sun's magnetic field does not throw off the data. I know that they are working on making water as a memory agent. So this will be the most cool thing ever compared to the water.
ronin2040Jul 11, 2006
malicous programs remaining resident in memory would be a problem if there werent something controlling the memory before the OS--the BIOS. If such a situation occured, surely the BIOS would have the capability to wipe the RAM. Im also sure it would be trivial to implement something into BIOS's that wiped ram upon shutdown (as an option)
ronin2040Jul 11, 2006
our computers already sometimes crash due to memory corruption via radiation from the stars (I believe, seem to remember somethin about that way back in A+ class); Im not sure it will be any more of an issue with this stuff.
freshieJul 13, 2006
I wonder how long it will be before this is used for entertainment medium?A small square chunk of this in some case that slides into the player like the old school Nintendo.
Closed AccountJul 22, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAM">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAM</a>