Scientific Discovery Moves Racetrack Memory Closer to Reality

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IBM Researchers today revealed a previously unknown aspect of key physics inside Racetrack memory -- a new technology design which stands to improve memory capabilities within mobile phones, laptop computers and business-class servers. This new class of memory could enable devices to store much more information - as much as a factor of 100 times greater - while using much less energy than today's designs.
 
Wow, this sounds impressive if it can be implemented easily. Nanosecond seek times? Sign me up! Funny that this is getting back to electromechanical switches, essentially. Thanks to nanotech, they now take up a hard drive or DIMM size area instead of a factory floor!
 
I'm putting my money on memristors as the next-gen memory/flash standard.
 
I wonder if this will be one of those things that they'll never ever talk about again, and keep it hidden for secret agencies and such.
 
If this ever comes to fruition, it'll basically make RAM obsolete. You'll be able to operate live from your storage drive as long as there's enough bandwidth between the Racetrack drive and your CPU, without the initial copy to RAM.
 
Read about this in Scientific American years ago. Still got quite a way to go. This won't replace RAM just yet as the race track would still have to be implemented in effect as pages of bytes, introducing latency for byte level access. However this would still have potential for very high throughput with large numbers of tracks working at once.
 
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