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Freescale attracts attention for magnetic memory
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR is expected to announce plans to launch a new unit focused on magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) today.
The firm, which was snapped up by a syndicate of private equity outfits back in 2006 for $17.6 billion, will hook up with various venture capitalists in efforts to focus on the MRAM comeback kid.
Befitting of a spin-off company (or any company as far as we at the INQ are concerned), Freescale’s new venture will be dubbed EverSpin Technologies. Freescale will purportedly offload its entire memory portfolio onto the new unit, which will receive a cool $20 million cash injection from the likes of New Venture Partners, Sigma Partners, Lux Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Epic Ventures.
MRAM, which boffins have been working on for two decades, enjoyed a short burst of popularity a while back, only to then rapidly disappear from collective memory for a rather long time. But it seems that now it’s back, and the new-old non-volatile memory type, which uses less power, allowing things to boot quicker, could be memory’s brighter future. Freescale is certainly hoping so.
The chipmaker has been struggling to make ends meet recently, with mounting debt and products from former parent company Motorola and from the automobile industry falling flat.
So despite the fact that memory chips are not really Freescale’s bread and butter, for the firm and its venture capitalist overlords, memory lapse is now not an option. µ
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I love the inventiveness of the naming of those investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Epic Ventures, marvellous.
That's actually another one they can use 'Marvellous Injections'
But frankly to have 5 investors and only have 20mil for setting up a market for new RAM seems quite underfunded and poor showing, you'd need more just for the bribes, let alone the personal and facilities.
MRAM's a technology whose time is definitely overdue. Unlike DRAM, it needs no refresh power (so no constant drain, or loss on power-off); unlike flash, it is erasable at the byte level, and uses about the same power to write as read; and access speeds are comparable to SRAM.

Once spin-transfer switching is a commercial technology (real soon now), it will be comparable in size to DRAM, too.

I'm delighted that Freescale are finally giving their MR portfolio a chance to get some focus. It can't happen too soon!
'member those old Magnetic Rings for memory, HAL? Daisy PG Case & Explaing Perpendicular Might help.

When I developed Magnetic focusing, it was thought Magnetism could NOT be foucused, yet idea worked. Magnetism can be amorphus, Or like electromagnet used to Levitate train. Like charges repel (& is extrodinarily Powerful to hold up train).
However, As often current dosn't offer enought to establish polarity. Leaving Ferrous metal both N & S throughout. Atoms just higgly piggly in order, NOT Strongly Charged per Sq Area/energy..

Then on HDD Tip take strong polar magnet & in just right distance & time swipe right behind more amorphous charge set to set atoms with say N up, then bottom is S so next atom is N up again, instead of mess like World trade center before or after (disorder Mess), everything just perfectly perpendicular in charge, everycharge in Proper order & Place, Much Less charge needed to effect same sensitiveity(Narrower).AS Opposite charges attrack with equal ferosity as Like charges that repel.

Well don't know if article is Hold Back on Magnetic Ring Tosh Game, yet in right places, even Ultie Tom can Use Bathroom, if NOT Locked Magnetically. Strangely Magnetic core memory opn glass with wireloom was Public about 1947 & transistorized module stick memory wasn't More decade behind in My life, although sticks had 1947 printed upon them in osilioscope.So Two Teams?, same useage, different qualities of densitiy. Somehow groteque size of magnetic is problem & slowness to change charge.Yet....
Drashek