Given the speed the signal would travel in the track, it's not going to be too bad of a latency. Certainly faster than many other more expensive technologies. As long as they can ramp the capacity up to a gbyte per cheap chip, they'll certainly have a market. -Adam On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Robert Ammerman wrote: > > 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 > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Moving in southeast Michigan? Buy my house: http://ubasics.com/house/ Interested in electronics? Check out the projects at http://ubasics.com Building your own house? Check out http://ubasics.com/home/ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist