[OT] All My Life's A Circle - Freescale invents core memory

[Bill Sconce]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:01:06 -0400
Jon maddog Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:

> For those who saw my core memory that I brought to the GNHLUG meeting last
> month and wondered at it, here we go again:
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    first commercial MRAM, or Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory
    
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    The 4-megabit part now shipping costs $25 at wholesale and is available
    in low volumes only. For $34, 512 megabytes, or 1,024 times more memory,
    can be purchased, and that is retail pricing.
    
7 cents/MB retail, $50/MB wholesale.  They must have hired product managers
from a company I used to work for.

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    electrical resistance exhibited by the magnetic field
    
That's new stuff indeed.  Maxwell would be shocked!
(Sorry.  Couldn't resist.)

    
B:)