On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 22:35:36 -0800, Ed Gould wrote: > http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2374767,00.asp >Super Memory Breakthrough: Store Every Movie Made This Year on Your Phone >(With Room to Spare) > My, my! Another circulating memory scheme. We've had acoustical delay lines, drums, magnetic bubbles, CCDs, ...
Racetrack memory works by storing data as magnetic regions (also called domains), which would be transported along nanowire "racetracks." Instead of forcing a computer to seek out the data it needs, as traditional computing systems do, the information would automatically slide along the racetrack to where it could be used. The result: powerful and efficient computing. And they tout the potential latency as an advantage in the form of some sort of simplicity. Well, it might work, and I might eat crow. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
