MRAM Unlikely To Become Universal Memory Says Report

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edited January 2005 in Science & Tech
Magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) is one of most advanced technologies that aims to replace Flash and RAM before the end of the decade. The memory may become commercially available as early as late this year, but analysts from NanoMarkets do not believe that the dream of a universal memory technology will become reality.
Concerns about the ability of Flash technology to further scale with business and application needs recently sparked discussions on likely successors. Several memory types are currently developed, such as polymer memory, FeRAM, nanocrystals, nanotube-based RAM or ovonics memory. Most activity originates from developers of MRAM, which already is available in working prototypes and could make its way into some consumer electronics by the end of this year.

A report released by market research firm NanoMarkets however suggests that the potential of MRAM could come closer to "the dream of universal memory than any other commercial product". The technology however was unlikely to be able to make this idea a complete reality, it said.
Source: Tom's Hardware Guide
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