The world's smallest hard drives have already shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, but nanoscale computing may soon make that achievement look elephantine, say some of the stars of information technology.
Toshiba and NEC have joined forces to cut down power consumption and size in cells of MRAM
IBM and Stanford University on Monday announced a joint effort to conduct further research into spintronics, a technology that one day could lead to rapid-fire digital cameras or computers that start working as soon as the power comes on.
Fundamental changes in basic technology don't come along often, but spintronics may be the hottest thing since sliced silicon.
The venerable hard drive is hitting middle age.
If the current trend for faster, more capable, more reliable computing operating at ever smaller amounts of power continues, the chances are good that we'll see the first MRAM in 2004.
IBM and Infineon will jointly present a paper this week that demonstrates how MRAM, one of the leading candidates to replace flash memory in mobile phones, could be ready for commercial production by 2005.
As a size barrier looms for the memory chips, the industry works to come up with a successor.
If the current trend for faster, more capable, more reliable computing operating at ever smaller amounts of power continues, the chances are good that we'll see the first MRAM in 2004.
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