News tagged with memory density

Hall effect magnetic field sensors for high temperatures and harmful radiation environments

Toyohashi Tech researchers have fabricated Hall effect magnetic field sensors operable at least 400 C and in extreme radiation conditions using gallium nitride-based heterostructures a with two-dimensional ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Magnetic random-access memory based on new spin transfer technology achieves higher storage density

Solid-state memory is seeing an increase in demand due to the emergence of portable devices such as tablet computers and smart phones. Spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (STT-MRAM) ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Elpida develops next-generation mobile DRAM product

Elpida Memory, the third largest Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) manufacturer in the world, today announced that it had developed the industry's first 4-gigabit next-generation mobile memory chips for ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

E-textiles get fashion upgrade with memory-storing fiber

The integration of electronics into textiles is a burgeoning field of research that may soon enable smart fabrics and wearable electronics. Bringing this technology one step closer to fruition, Jin-Woo Han and Meyya Meyyappan ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Elpida develops industry's first 25nm process 4-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM

Elpida Memory today announced it had completed development of the industry's first 25-nanometer (nm) process 4-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM. The new chip is also the smallest 4-gigabit DRAM. The new cutting-edge smallest available ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBM scientists demonstrate computer memory breakthrough

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated that a relatively new memory technology, known as phase-change memory (PCM), can reliably store multiple data bits per cell ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Elpida achieves 4-Layer 0.8mm mobile RAM package

Elpida Memory today announced that its researchers have developed the technology to mass manufacture a 0.8mm four-layer DRAM package, the thinnest memory device in the DRAM industry.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

Data storage takes an electric turn

(PhysOrg.com) -- German scientists from the Forschungszentrum Julich and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle have discovered the basis for the next generation of memory devices. In ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Mini disks for data storage: Slanted edges favor tiny magnetic vortices

Slanted exterior edges on tiny magnetic disks could lead to a breakthrough in data processing. Materials researchers of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany, were able to create magnetic vortices with a diameter ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Toshiba Introduces 320GB 1.8-inch HDD

Toshiba Corporation today introduced a new line up of 1.8-inch HDDs with a maximum capacity of 320GB, the highest yet announced by the industry, targeted at thin and light mobile PCs and portable external ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Intel Reports Breakthrough in Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology

Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 4

A Glimpse of the Future MEMS-based Storage: Totally Green & Thumbnail Size

The University of Twente--Enschede, The Netherlands published newly conferred PhD Mohammed Ghiath Khatib's thesis, "MEMS-based Storage Devices: Integration in Energy-Constrained Mobile System". The new MEMS, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 0 weblog

Investigating a sometimes-faulty protein's role in brain links

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shed light on how a protein implicated in cognitive disorders maintains and regulates brain cell structures that are key to learning and ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cholesterol-reducing drugs may lessen brain function

Research by an Iowa State University scientist suggests that cholesterol-reducing drugs known as statins may lessen brain function.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1