[FPSPACE] Japanese Satellite First to Use Magnetic Memory

[LARRY KLAES]

Japanese Satellite First to Use Magnetic Memory

Scientific American Mar. 13, 2008

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Japan's SpriteSat research
satellite will use magnetoresistive
random access memory (MRAM) to do
the job of both flash memory and
static random access memory (SRAM),
which in the satellite's
electronics. The MRAM can be
programmed in 35 nanoseconds--five
or six orders of magnitude faster
than flash--and reprogrammed an
unlimited number of...

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