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Re:IEDM 2022: Did We Just Witness the Death of SRAM? by _hypx on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:45PM (#33992620)
These things are more accurate called "spintronics." They are very different from conventional magnetic recording technologies.
Re:IEDM 2022: Did We Just Witness the Death of SRAM? by bippingchip on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:41PM (#33993881)
Having worked closely on the circuit side of things with folks doing research on spintronics and STT-MRAM devices: it’s going to be a very long time still before this can replace embedded SRAM. The MRAM itself can be made quite small, but you still need an access transistor and wrote currents are still too high, which means very big transistors, which then dominate memory area… Also, writing is much slower compared to SRAM.

It’s a very nice embedded flash replacement though…

Re:IEDM 2022: Did We Just Witness the Death of SRAM? by _hypx on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:47PM (#33994958)
It might be SOT-MRAM over STT-MRAM. I'm of the impression that SOT-MRAM doesn't have the slow write problem.
Re:IEDM 2022: Did We Just Witness the Death of SRAM? by hulitu on Thursday December 15, 2022 @02:36AM (#33996392)
What happens if i put a magnet nearby ? Does it still work ?
Re:IEDM 2022: Did We Just Witness the Death of SRAM? by marcosdumay on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:15PM (#33994197)
I have high hopes for spintronics on the power efficiency front, but for miniaturization, they are as much of a hassle as any other magnetic technology.