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IEEE Spectrum
November 2010
Bedair et al. |
Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage   |
InternetNews
April 26, 2004
Michael Singer |
IBM Takes Nano Chip Design for a 'Spin' A collaboration between IBM and Stanford University could lead to reconfigurable logic devices, room-temperature superconductors and quantum computers. |
Chemistry World
October 9, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Science Behind Your Hard Drive Scoops Physics Nobel The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grunberg, for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance. |
The Motley Fool
December 24, 2010
Balachander Suriyanarayanan |
IBM's "Racetrack" Closer to Starting Its Engine A memory technology that could enable a handheld device like an MP3 player to store about 3,500 movies or 500,000 songs is a step closer to commercial viability, researchers at IBM say. |
CIO
August 15, 2001
Daniel Sweeney |
New Memory Flash provided the technical foundation for today's PDAs and smart phones, but it is relatively slow compared with volatile memory and consumes considerable energy. Three next-generation technologies are currently vying for the huge Flash market... |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2004
Jeff Young |
NVE's Nanotrap Only Snares Speculators NVE's stock is sizzling hot. This nano-ostensible company is hell-bent on convincing the world it holds the keys -- licensable keys -- to a high-profile memory technology for PCs, cell phones, and other gadgets. |
Technology Research News
October 8, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Magnetic memory makes logic Magnetic memory will soon put an end to the daily annoyance of waiting while your computer boots up from its hard disk. These chips that hold data when the power is off might also be capable of a lot more. Adding a few extra wires to each memory cell could turn the chips into efficient computer processors. |
Industrial Physicist
Theis & Coufal |
How IBM Sustains the Leading Edge Although we constantly focus on the market, IBM Research has also produced a remarkable string of scientific firsts in physics and in other fields of science and engineering. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2005
John C. Dvorak |
Inside Track v24n5 While it is not up to the current specs of today's efficient DRAM, every chip company has its eye on the potential of magnetic RAM, or MRAM. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2008
Tim Beyers |
IBM's "Racetrack" Sets a New Pace IBM announces a breakthrough innovation in data storage that, if commercially viable, could render useless flash memory drives from SanDisk and hard disks from Seagate and Western Digital. |
Technology Research News
December 11, 2002
Kimberly Patch |
Laser pulses could speed memory Researchers from the Research Institute for Materials in the Netherlands and Siemens AG in Germany have found a way to switch a magnetic bit more quickly. The potential payoff is faster computer memory. |
Technology Research News
October 17, 2005 |
Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions. |
The Motley Fool
July 10, 2006
Seth Jayson |
Freescale Nails SanDisk? If SanDisk is dropping because of the MRAM news, the market is crazier than we think. Investors, take note. |
PC World
January 2002
Daniel Tynan |
20/20 Foresight Here are the 20 products, trends, and technologies that will change PCs in 2002 -- and beyond... |
InternetNews
November 28, 2007 |
Samsung Predicts End of DRAM Oversupply Samsung Electronics said the oversupply of memory chips used in personal computers was expected to ease in 2008 as growing demand for portable gadgets prompts a shift in production to Flash chips. |
Technology Research News
March 26, 2003 |
Rubber stamp writes data Scientists from IBM's Almaden research center have found a way to quickly transfer information from a magnetic mask to a magnetic disk. The method promises to make it considerably quicker to format and copy magnetic media in bulk. |
InternetNews
July 10, 2006
David Needle |
Freescale First to 'Yes, MRAM'? Freescale Semiconductor said today that it's the first to start volume production of 4 megabit Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory. IBM first developed the technology in the 1970s. |
PC Magazine
July 1, 2003 |
Future Tech: 20 Hot Technologies to Watch 20 of the most promising technologies of tomorrow. And since we're all gadget freaks, we couldn't help but show you some of the prototype products we found along the way. |
Technology Research News
November 3, 2004 |
Square Rings Promise Reliable MRAM Researchers are working on magnetic random access memory chips that hold as much data as standard electronic memory chips. The key to a promising design is a nanowire bent into a circle. |
Technology Research News
January 1, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility. |
Technology Research News
January 26, 2005 |
Magnetic Logic Becomes Practical Researchers from Stanford University have improved a way to program magnetic random access memory (MRAM) to carry out computations. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
MRAM: The Holy Grail of Memory NVE Corporation investors are excited by the company's "spintronics" nanotechnology used for Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM.) The stock rocketed up more than $9 a share on news it was awarded a key patent. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2006
Charles Q. Choi |
Nanomagnets to the Rescue If, as seems possible, magnetic nanocomposites can be manufactured directly on chips, engineers could design computers that are smaller and, equally important, cooler than anything available today. |
InternetNews
February 25, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
MetaRAM Bets on High-Capacity Memory Breakthrough MetaRAM debuts with high-capacity DRAM using cheaper, low-capacity chips. |
Technology Research News
February 25, 2004 |
Hot tip boosts disk capacity Many research efforts are aimed at increasing the amount of information that can be stored in a given area of magnetic media like computer disks. One challenge is making smaller magnetic bits that are stable at room temperature. |
Technology Research News
March 9, 2005 |
Avalanches up Disk Storage Researchers have constructed a spin-valve transistor that is more sensitive to microscopic magnetic fields than the devices that read today's commercial hard drives. |
InternetNews
May 11, 2010 |
PC, Memory Prices Seen Rising in 2010 Latest check of the supply chain shows demand for memory surging, with the likely result of driving up for prices for PCs throughout 2010. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2011
Keki Fatakia |
Apple Stays Fresh Despite the Turmoil Sales of personal computers crash while iPads sell like hotcakes. |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2012
Anders Bylund |
Have You Seen This Technology Bust the Status Quo? Probably not yet, but I'm sure you will. |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003 |
Shape key to strong sensors Researchers have found a possible explanation for why a pair of semiconducting compounds -- mixes of silver and selenium or tellurium -- are strong magnetic sensors over a wide range of magnetic field strengths. |
The Motley Fool
January 24, 2005
Wherrett & Yelovich |
All Dip and No Chip NVE makes routers and couplers based upon its nano-inspired "spintronics" technology. At a current share price of $23, NVE is valued at a very generous 54 times trailing-12-month earnings. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2004
Mark Mahorney |
DRAM's Drag on PC Makers A coming shortage of memory chips could increase PC production costs. |
InternetNews
September 15, 2006
David Needle |
Freescale Sold For Billions Consortium buys chip firm in mega-deal. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Naughty: NVE Not Very Exciting Businesses built solely on promises can create outrageous gains over short periods. Take NVE. Investors have bid the shares up more than 132% this year, hoping that the company's MRAM technology would see a major licensing deal with Freescale Semiconductor. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Infineon Loses a Winner After Ulrich Schumacher had just pulled the world's third-largest DRAM maker through billions of cost cutting and straight to profitability, he resigns as the CEO of the world's No. 6 chip maker. |
