finally some progress with MRAM

[Schadenfroh]

I know they have been saying this for years, but it looks like it might finally be getting serious.
Click me

Products expected next year

only time will tell if it is BS, but this stuff would be great if they could get it to work

 

[sandorski]

Wow, hopefully they can do it and hopefully it won't cost an arm and a leg. Certainly would change things.

 

[Corporate Thug]

you all thought P4's are too expensive eh? wait til this hits the market

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: shady06
you all thought P4's are too expensive eh? wait til this hits the market

Ya, that's what I'm afraid of.

 

[foofoo]

thanks for the link,
this will be the really cool thing to get once they have it worked out.
had to send them a correction though, there is no such thing as the "magnetic charge" described in the "how it works" box.
just one of my pet peeves, they provide a supposedly scientific description of the principles behind the new technology and get it wrong. makes me wonder how much of the news about things that i dont know anything about are wrong too.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Its CNN. Did you expect accuracy? (kidding)

looks cool . . . wouldn't it be funny if these chips generated feilds of one or more teslas? (probably only a few nanoteslas, tops) when you load something or do RAM heavy stuff it scrambles your hardrive, makes your monitor go fuzzy, and drags ferromagnetic objects towards your comp . . . .

(imagine this: your ram pulls your HSF off your CPU . . . . only most hsf are copper or aluminum, and neither of those are affected by magnetism.



Looks cool, especially the part about retaining memory after shutdown. that means we can have instantaneous boot ups? I mean, in a normal bootup, the cpu loads the OS and whatnot onto the RAM and stuff (heh, me know gud 'puter), so with this, if you turn it on (and the OS supports it) it will go exactly back to the state it was in when you turned it off, right? So completely powering down your system could act like a 'sleep' or screensaver type deal, because it wouldn't need to load anything when it turns back on . . . am I correct?

 

[SnowBoarder9455]

Turning the computer on and off all day would be good for power consumption, but probably not good on the PSU and other components.

But the boot time sounds good.

I hate boot times, the computer I had until 4 weeks ago took more than 3 minutes to turn on, this one takes less than 30 seconds, but its still a little longer than I wish.