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New Memory Chip for Advanced Computing

A new type of memory chip is offered to the market by Freescale Semiconductor, whose intentions are to encourage the development of applications and devices that can benefit from the technology. This is the first time this kind of memory chips (based on Magnetoresistive RAM) will be sold. For many years now had Freescale Semiconductor`s researchers developed the technology and the expectations from the new product are surely high.

According to Freescale`s director of technology solutions in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Andreas Wild, the new chips can be used in the computer making industry in order to enable instantaneous startup. They will replace the active memory that is presently used to speed the startup process. Some other types of memory can also be replaced by MRAM. For instance, flash and EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) that suffer from limited endurance.

Now that the chips are available at the market, other applications could appear. "Nobody wanted to engage in the development of applications and products if there would not be the security of supply," Wild says. "In order to solve this circle, we decided we would put something on the market that would be mature and reliable to stimulate development."