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MeRAM has the potential to succeed NAND flash as the best non-volatile sold state memory with DRAM-like speed, better-than-NAND endurance and density, and now it has taken a step forward, with UCLA research making the stuff 10 to 10,000 times more energy-efficient. UCLA boffins - led by Raytheon professor of electrical …

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  1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    dense, non volatile, fast?

    No mention on cycle times.

    It may just be an impression but I think magnetic based systems are more rad hard by the physics they depend on than other memory technologies.

    Handy should you be planing a trip to Jupiter or shopping for the next generation control electronics on nuclear weapons.

    Usual warning. This is a process, not a product. It's v 0.1 tech.

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  2. DF118

    Boffin

    I know you do it in part to wind up those who claim it's offensive (of which I'm not one) but perhaps the word "boffin" is a tad overused in this article?

    Also, is it 10-10,000 or 10-1,000 more energy efficient?

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    1. DF118
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      Re: Boffin

      *times

      Oops!

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      1. wowfood
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        Re: Boffin

        I just wish they wouldn't repeat the same information over and over. The article was basically split into thirds, with each third repeating the previous third with slightly different wording. I mean this article could have been much much shorter if that hadn't occured.

        Probably also why boffin came up so much.

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  3. Cuddles

    "MeRAM has the potential to succeed NAND flash"

    Except you only just reported that phase-change RAM is already being shipped in real devices. Perhaps you meant to say that MeRAM has the potential to succeed NAND's successor?

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/17/micron_pcm_asha/

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    1. Bronek Kozicki
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      Re: "MeRAM has the potential to succeed NAND flash"

      Yes I'm getting confused too. It would appear there is a number of very vast and nonvolatile memory technologies already used in real-world devices , e.g. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2012/01/23/dell_lsi_mram/

      Just healthy competition, I suppose.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: "MeRAM has the potential to succeed NAND flash"

      Then there's memristor and graphene etc.

      It doesn't really make sense to spend too much money on anything right now.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    10-10,000 times

    yeah, what's a few powers of ten when you're trying to work out if it'll be cost-effective?

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    The computer world has come full circle and is now back to magnetic core memory.

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    1. Gordon 10
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      only with teeny tiny cores this time round.

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