INVENTION OF THE DECADE- MRAM

[santz]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060710/ap_on_hi_te/magnetic_memory

once this technology is available for PCs, booting up can take less than 5 seconds
Once it replaces DDR3 in vidieo cards, games will start and load in secs!!

imagine restarting your pc and starting battlefield 2 and jumping into multiplayer all uner 15 seconds . what do u think!?

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

We have awhile

It is promising

More like Battlefield 4 or 5 or 6

Edit: It is more useful as a hard-drive replacement than video card memory replacement at this point. 200MB/sec is read/write is not enough.

 

[santz]

"This is the most significant memory introduction in this decade," said Will Strauss, an analyst with research firm Forward Concepts. "This is radically new technology. People have been dabbling in this for years, but nobody has been able to make it in volume."

 

[ddviper]

Looks pretty sweet, cant wait

-Got new tech?

 

[santz]

Now if only they can infuse this with our brain! ,--------------------------i know kung fu------------!

 

[josh6079]

Nice find. I wonder how long it will take to become popular. Look at CD-ROMs, they're still around after how long?

 

[SpeedZealot369]

Originally posted by: santz
Now if only they can infuse this with our brain! ,--------------------------i know kung fu------------!

lol


This would be cool, but then again by that time we will have quantnum physics enabled cpu's :Q

Take that AEGIA

 

[CFP]

If it's magnetic, as in static memory ie. no moving parts, it would need a constant supply of electricity. If that electricity is cut, all data is lost.

 

[flashbacck]

Originally posted by: CedricFP
If it's magnetic, as in static memory ie. no moving parts, it would need a constant supply of electricity. If that electricity is cut, all data is lost.

what in the world are you talking about?

"Achieving a long-sought goal of the $48 billion memory chip industry, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced the commercial availability of a chip that combines traditional memory's endurance with a hard drive's ability to keep data while powered down. "

 

[Polish3d]

Originally posted by: CedricFP
If it's magnetic, as in static memory ie. no moving parts, it would need a constant supply of electricity. If that electricity is cut, all data is lost.

Well smarty pants according to the article it doesnt need electricity to keep data

 

[avi85]

I read about IBM doing something like this over 5 years ago.

 

[Keysplayr]

If these reach about the size of 4 or more GB, then it may be a viable solution to house just the operating system (Not sure about Vista) and the virtual memory (swap drive). Then a standard hard drive for the rest of the applications. That would be a vast improvement in start up time and virtually eliminate disk thrashing when it come to swap activity. So it looks very good. But I fear these "Magneto Drives" will be hugely expensive until it's widely used. :::sigh:::

 

[Dribble]

You can already buy hd replacements that combine traditional memory with a rechargable battery. Obviously they are a bit small and expensive (like the magnito memory). People have tried sticking the os/games on them and yes they do boot up a little faster but certainly not in life changing way.

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
If these reach about the size of 4 or more GB, then it may be a viable solution to house just the operating system (Not sure about Vista) and the virtual memory (swap drive). Then a standard hard drive for the rest of the applications. That would be a vast improvement in start up time and virtually eliminate disk thrashing when it come to swap activity. So it looks very good. But I fear these "Magneto Drives" will be hugely expensive until it's widely used. :::sigh:::

Actually, Vista can already use memory to cache the HDD like that via a set of related technologies, one of which is called Ready Boost. Here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/foreveryone/performance.mspx

Basically, you can just plug in a flash drive to get the benefits now (if any).

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: CedricFP
If it's magnetic, as in static memory ie. no moving parts, it would need a constant supply of electricity. If that electricity is cut, all data is lost.

You're a little confused. One of the nice properties of magnetic storage is that its nonvolatile. IOW it retains data without a constant supply of electricity. Hard drives, floppy drives, etc. use magnetic storage. When was the last time you had to carry a battery pack around with your floppy disks? Conversely, RAM is volatile.

 

[nitromullet]

while interesting, this doesn't belong in video...