16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory

3 comments

• Geof25 1 hour ago
  You can buy FRAM (Ferroelectric RAM) which are effectively the same thing just in smaller package. But I have seen them only about few kB. However the amount of R/W operations is effectively unlimited,
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  • Neywiny 8 minutes ago
    You can get them up to 16Mb/2MB. Which is 1/128 what NOR flash comes in for a similar price and package. Certainly a trade.

    I think MRAM is the future though.

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    • Joker_vD 2 minutes ago
      It is the future, and has been the future for almost 40 years already! I bet that's what the hoverboards will use inside their microcontrollers — gotta drive those portable fusion reactors reliably!
• amelius 1 hour ago
  With the current DRAM shortages, this couldn't have come at a better time.
• kristopolous 37 minutes ago
  I thought they meant bus width ...still impressed for entirely unexpected reasons.