What Lies Ahead for Resistance-Based Memory Technologies?

Phase-change RAM, magnetic RAM, and resistive RAM offer strong scalability, speed, and power consumption advantages over conventional capacitance-based memory. Recent work shows the feasibility of mass producing these new devices and their suitability for next-generation technology.

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