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Just a question and possibly some info on the future of memory as we know it...
I was reading in a science magazine about a new semiconductor that doesnt use transistors, is 100% reconfigurable to the specified task, and "keeps" its configuration with no power applied.
They even went on to say that it could be used as memory in future computers, and maybe as a storage device.
The tag name for it slipped my mind, but they called it M-RAM. Magnetic Random Access Memory.
Standard 8-bit CMOS requires 14 transistors to run, these things only have three leads for an 8-bit module and are "magnetoconductors", or something like that.
Anyone hear or read of such a thing in their travels?IBM research labs
I was reading in a science magazine about a new semiconductor that doesnt use transistors, is 100% reconfigurable to the specified task, and "keeps" its configuration with no power applied.
They even went on to say that it could be used as memory in future computers, and maybe as a storage device.
The tag name for it slipped my mind, but they called it M-RAM. Magnetic Random Access Memory.
Standard 8-bit CMOS requires 14 transistors to run, these things only have three leads for an 8-bit module and are "magnetoconductors", or something like that.
Anyone hear or read of such a thing in their travels?IBM research labs
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