At 11:12 AM 8/22/97 -0700, you wrote:

>Which is EXACTLY why we DON'T rely on EEPROM; we use FRAM!  Ferroelectric
>RAM (there's nothing magnetic about it, folks, the ``ferro'' moniker is
>historical accident) is batteryless nonvolatile RAM which writes and reads
>as fast and low power as SRAM.

Aye ? Doesn't the memory cell exploit a valence change of a bound Fe atom ?

Rgds

Mike
Perth, Western Australia