Permanent Storage Magnetic Memory

US company Freescale, have developed a new form of storage, dubbed Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, or Mram. The chips are able to hold information even after the power has been switched off, but unlike flash memory, Mram has a much much faster read/write speed and degrades at a much slower rate.

“This is radically new technology. People have been dabbling in this for years, but nobody has been able to make it in volume.”

Engineers are predicting the use of Mram to store computer operating systems, allowing for faster startup times.

Of course, with faster more powerful machines, comes fatter more bloated software.