Magnetic RAM a reality

For decades, we have put up with one form or another of drawbacks in RAM technology. DRAM requires power, and refresh. Flash has a limited lifetime. CMOS requires power and isn't very dense. MRAM steps up to the plate: No maintenance power, 100% retention, high density. Woot!

Sounds interesting, having memory that has both the properties of both a hard drive and memory, it would be interesting if they could make it at the same expense as DDR or DDR2, then it could take the place of RAM. The only question that isn't answered is the read and write speed, if it isn't as fast as current ram, then it will not be possible for ti to take the place of DDR, because in things like gaming, fast ram is required to load data from disk. We will just have to see what the future holds for this emerging technology, as another year, slowly comes into play.

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