News tagged with access memory

What Comes After Hard Drives?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (36) | comments 35 feature

Scientists watch a next-generation ferroelectric memory bit switch in real time

For the first time, engineering researchers have been able to watch in real time the nanoscale process of a ferroelectric memory bit switching between the 0 and 1 states.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New 'FeTRAM' is promising computer memory technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are developing a new type of computer memory that could be faster than the existing commercial memory and use far less power than flash memory devices.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Scientists make magnetic new graphene discovery

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maryland researchers have discovered a way to control magnetic properties of graphene that could lead to powerful new applications in magnetic storage and magnetic random access ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Extremely fast MRAM data storage within reach

Magnetic Random Access Memories (MRAM) are the most important new modules on the market of computer storage devices. Like the well known USB-sticks, they store information into static memory, but MRAM offer ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Magical BEANs: New nano-sized particles could provide mega-sized data storage

The ability of phase-change materials to readily and swiftly transition between different phases has made them valuable as a low-power source of non-volatile or “flash” memory and data storage. Now an entire ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

'Colossal' Magnetic Effect Under Pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- Millions of people today carry around pocket-sized music players capable of holding thousands of songs, thanks to the discovery 20 years ago of a phenomenon known as the “giant magnetoresistance ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 3

Rsearchers discover brain's memory 'buffer' in single cells

Individual nerve cells in the front part of the brain can hold traces of memories on their own for as long as a minute and possibly longer, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Magnetic attraction: NIST microchip demonstrates concept of 'MRAM for biomolecules'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder (CU) have developed a low-power microchip that uses a combination of microfluidics ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

India launches 'world's cheapest' tablet computer

India on Wednesday launched its long-awaited "computer for the masses", unveiling a $46 tablet device designed to bring the information technology revolution to tens of millions of students.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Physicists demonstrate the quantum von Neumann architecture

A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in this week's issue of Science Express online.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Korean researchers report creation of faster, more resilient ReRam

(PhysOrg.com) -- Korean researchers working out of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology report in a paper published in Nature Materials, that they've been able to create a non-volatile Resistance RAM (ReRam) chip c ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers develop hardware encryption for new computer memory technology

Security concerns are one of the key obstacles to the adoption of new non-volatile main memory (NVMM) technology in next-generation computers, which would improve computer start times and boost memory capacity. But now researchers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Armchair nanoribbons made into spintronic device

In a development that may revolutionize handheld electronics, flat-panel displays, touch panels, electronic ink, and solar cells, as well as drastically reduce their manufacturing costs, physicists in Iran have created a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Racetrack memory

Imagine a computer equipped with shock-proof memory that's 100,000 times faster and consumes less power than current hard disks. EPFL Professor Mathias Klaui is working on a new kind of "racetrack" memory, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 8 | with audio podcast