News tagged with random access
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. ...
Oct 23, 2009 |
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'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 ...
Jun 05, 2009 |
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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, ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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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.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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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.
Sep 27, 2011 |
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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 ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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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 ...
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Dual-core? Quad-core? Future Computers May Have Hundreds of Processors
(PhysOrg.com) -- While today's top-line personal computers boast of dual- or quad-core processors to handle complex workloads, experts predict hundreds or even thousands of core processors may be commonplace within the next ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 03, 2010 |
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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
Jan 25, 2009 |
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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 ...
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit
(PhysOrg.com) -- Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2009 |
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India to launch $45 tablet computer
India is set Wednesday to launch its long-awaited low-cost computer, a $45 tablet device designed to bring the information technology revolution to tens of millions of students.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Toshiba Develops World's Highest-Bandwidth, Highest Density Non-volatile RAM
Toshiba Corporation today announced the prototype of a new FeRAM -- Ferroelectric Random Access Memory -- that redefines industry benchmarks for density and operating speed. The new chip realizes storage of ...
Feb 09, 2009 |
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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 ...
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Research team has developed a fully functional flexible memory
The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST) has developed fully functional flexible non-volatile resistive random access memory (RRAM) where a memory cell can ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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