Freescale claims magnetic memory breakthrough

MRAM - magnetoresistive random access memory - holds the promise of fast access times and the ability to store data without needing juice almost indefinitely.

Freescale, according to reports, will sell MRAMs for $25 but there's a way to go before you can store your entire life on them. The first chips it will sell will store four megabits and are much more expensive than DRAM.

Nor will Freescale take on the mainstream DRAM and SRAM market with its magnetic memories, but instead will seek to sell them for industrial embedded purposes.

Periodically, memory firms herald the arrival of MRAM - see links below. But it seems Freescale is actually going to sell real products, real soon. µ

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