IBM Creates Working "Racetrack Memory"

holy_calamity writes "IBM has created the first working 'racetrack memory' device — a technology we've discussed as it's been touted as the future of memory. It works by writing bits using the magnetic domains inside a very thin wire. Those domain can be shunted along this 'racetrack' and past read heads."

Imagine an infinite-length wire "track"

[BadAnalogyGuy]

If you had an infinite-length track, you could theoretically encode data which could itself be interpreted as processor instructions. Then, given these instructions, you could move back and forth within this track and read data and further instructions. With a fairly minimum number of instructions, it would be possible to synthesize more complex instruction batches.

This sounds like such a great idea. I wish I had it already!

FTFA

[Oxy the moron]

The first ever racetrack memory device is able to store and read three bits of data using the racetrack method.

Bit 1 - Did something?
Bit 2 - ??????
Bit 3 - Profited?

Re:Imagine an infinite-length wire "track"

[Deltaspectre]

If I had an infinite length track, I'd sell it for infinite money.

Need an analogy

[Cryophallion]

Without a proper Light -Distance analogy [slashdot.org] I have no way of being impressed by the speed of device. Is it knuckle to knee? Nose to toe? People need to know these things!

That's nothin'

[Jupiter Jones]

Meh.

Wake me when they come up with "Hot Dog" or "Crashdown" memory.

JJ

business machines

[Anonymous Coward]

first they "Ship Fastest CPU on Earth" now this. all after loosing 300K jobs and being fucked by EPA. what the hell is going on at IBM? has the The Large Hadron Collider been turned on already? should we be expecting lots of zombies on pink unicorns anytime soon? sheeeeeet.

Timeline

[audubon]

The first ever racetrack memory device is able to store and read three bits of data using the racetrack method.

Assuming memory capacity doubles [wikipedia.org] every two years, IBM expects to have a 64 kilobyte version ready by mid 2025.

Re:Imagine an infinite-length wire "track"

[itlurksbeneath]

Hmm... To use a car analogy (this is Slashdot, right?): if you had a car on an infinite-length track, would it be the ultimate Touring Machine?

Cue groans...

No betting

[UnknowingFool]

on the racetrack memory results. "Come on, NAND gate#7. Lucky #7! Daddy needs a new iPod"