[geeks] Flash drive questions

[Phil Stracchino]

James Fogg wrote:
>> I thought magnetic memory was going to make flash a dinosaur
>> any day now, and that flash had upper limits that made it
>> ridiculous to keep using?  Reference: IEEE Computer and IEEE
>> (standard) mags for the last couple of years.
> 
> Oh, you mean....like CORE? Gee, where have I heard of this before?
>
> Little etched iron doped silicon toroid cores and etched windings on a
> wafer. Or are they doing something else, like bubble mem?

MRAM != microscopic core.  MRAM is Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAM for a good basic primer.


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