News tagged with magnetic core memory

Project Whirlwind comes home

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Project Whirlwind Computer collection -- a compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s -- has been transferred back to the Institute from ...

Technology / Other

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Nanoscale magnetic media diagnostics by rippling spin waves

Memory devices based on magnetism are one of the core technologies of the computing industry, and engineers are working to develop new forms of magnetic memory that are faster, smaller, and more energy efficient ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Self-sculpting sand could allow spontaneous formation of new tools, duplication of broken mechanical parts

Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Synchronized dynamic duos: Controlling how magnetic vortices gyrate together

Crystals can guide and control light and electricity by creating spatially periodic energy barriers. An electron (or photon) can pass through these barriers only when it has a particular energy, allowing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Research elucidates the effect of disorder on magnetic vortex gyration

Much of the world’s information is stored in memories consisting of magnetic domains, and researchers continue to develop new domain arrangements to enable smaller and faster such memories.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vortices get organized

Exotic entities that arrange into a crystalline structure at near room-temperature could lead to a new approach to electronic memory.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

SanDisk intros UHS-I SDHC Card ideal for capturing high resolution photos, full HD videos

SanDisk Corporation today introduced the SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I card. The card features Ultra High Speed (UHS) technology from the newly released SD 3.0 specification and achieves up to 45MB/sec read ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Sound' science offers platform for brain treatment and manipulation

The ability to diagnose and treat brain dysfunction without surgery, may rely on a new method of noninvasive brain stimulation using pulsed ultrasound developed by a team of scientists led by William "Jamie" ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Magnetic vortex memory shows memory potential of nanodots

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using magnetic nanodots in the vortex state, researchers have designed a new kind of non-volatile memory that could offer increased speed and density for next-generation non-volatile random ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

New technique offers a more detailed view of brain activity

(PhysOrg.com) -- For neuroscientists, one of the best ways to study brain activity is with a scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which reveals blood flow in the brain.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 4


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