> Called racetrack memory because data runs around a wire 'track', it
> could eventually lead to solid state devices capable of storing 500,000
> songs or 3500 movies - about 100 times more than possible today -
> with far lower cost and significantly less power consumption

I don't know how far a new technology with Tlatency >> Taccess would do. 
Semiconductor memory, unlike hard drives, allows true random access to any 
bit in the memory. It seems like this racetrack memory would not have that 
very desirable characteristic.

--- Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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