MRAM dev sped up.

[moreau]

Can't speak about specific devices being developed. That is for engineers...

I can tell you about the physics of magnetic devices... and the fact is that changing the magnetization of a adjacent layers is a much faster event than the charging of a capacitor in an RC circuit.

So... first gen MRAM devices have speeds on the order of current DRAM devices. However, the physics of MRAM devices would allow for future increases that aren't possible in DRAM.

2cents...

CEM

[High_Jumbllama]

Apparently I did not read the article correctly. Looks fantastic.

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Wombat
It would be initialized on boot, the same as any other memory. Duh, not hard.

Kinda defeats the instantaneous on and off feature they were talking about

[Wombat]

No, not really. It would be easy to check the code status on boot, since the CPU still has to get where it was anyway.

[Jon P. Inghram]

If they were to use it in place of actual RAM, and it's speed was at least as fast as old fashioned SDRAM, wiping the contents on boot-up wouldn't be an issue, at least as far as time is concerned. Sandra claims my system (Celeron Tualatin 1.2 @ 1.44 GHz, Asus TUSL2-C, i815EP chipset, and 512 megs PC133 SDRAM running at 120 MHz CAS2) manages roughly 850 MB/s.

[ZokesPro]

I heard abut this years ago, even posted some stuff here on MURC, can't wait to see the stuff in stores!