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Technology Research News October 8, 2003 Eric Smalley	Magnetic memory makes logic Magnetic memory will soon put an end to the daily annoyance of waiting while your computer boots up from its hard disk. These chips that hold data when the power is off might also be capable of a lot more. Adding a few extra wires to each memory cell could turn the chips into efficient computer processors.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Avalanches up Disk Storage Researchers have constructed a spin-valve transistor that is more sensitive to microscopic magnetic fields than the devices that read today's commercial hard drives.
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Bedair et al.	Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage
Technology Research News November 3, 2004	Square Rings Promise Reliable MRAM Researchers are working on magnetic random access memory chips that hold as much data as standard electronic memory chips. The key to a promising design is a nanowire bent into a circle.
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Eric Smalley	Y Switches Set up Low-Power Logic Researchers are looking into Y-branch switches, which have the potential to use less energy because they turn circuits on and off by directing electrons in one of two directions rather than opening and closing the circuit.
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Fluid chip does binary logic Researchers are working to combine many gates to make a microfluidic computing system. The technology could lead to inexpensive, easily-manufacturerd handheld labs-on-a-chip that do not require control electronics.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley	Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	See-through magnets hang tough Researchers from the Independent University of Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Zaragoza in Spain have found a way to form transparent, durable, lightweight magnets that maintain their magnetism in magnetic fields and high temperatures.
Technology Research News March 26, 2003	Rubber stamp writes data Scientists from IBM's Almaden research center have found a way to quickly transfer information from a magnetic mask to a magnetic disk. The method promises to make it considerably quicker to format and copy magnetic media in bulk.
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Yu-Tzu Chiu	Flash Memory Survives 100 Million Cycles A little heat lets flash beat typical 10 000-cycle limit
InternetNews April 26, 2004 Michael Singer	IBM Takes Nano Chip Design for a 'Spin' A collaboration between IBM and Stanford University could lead to reconfigurable logic devices, room-temperature superconductors and quantum computers.
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Scheme smooths parallel processing Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mississippi State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Florida State University have drawn from nature to coordinate large numbers of parallel processors without the top-down management of a central plan.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Elizabeth Svoboda	Fresh Spin On Logic In the last few years, a new type of memory has begun to penetrate the market for nonvolatile data storage. In addition to being much faster, spintronics processors could be much smaller than present-day processors.
Chemistry World November 25, 2013 Carla Pegoraro	Steering cells towards biocomputers Bacterial toxins that undergo unique cell interactions have been used to perform logic functions by researchers in Germany. This innovation will help push the limits of synthetic biology.
InternetNews December 10, 2008 Andy Patrizio	We Can Compete in HPC, Say Chip Vendors Despite complaints that x86 chips can't scale properly for high performance computing, Intel and AMD say they have solutions in the works.
InternetNews October 29, 2009	Intel, Numonyx Invent the Memory Club Sandwich New means of stacking layers will allow for more memory density.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005	Magnetic Resonance Goes Nano Researchers have built a nuclear magnetic resonance device that has the potential to overcome the quantum bit limit because it is small enough to fit on a computer chip.
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Monica Heger	Flurry of Floating-Body Memory Research, but Still No Products Intel and Toshiba show off their competitors to Innovative Silicon's Z-RAM
Chemistry World June 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal.
IEEE Spectrum September 2010 David Lammers	Resistive RAM Gains Ground Faith in phase-change memory falters
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Rachel Courtland	Six Paths to Longer Battery Life These six technologies could save on smartphone power
Chemistry World May 18, 2011 James Urquhart	Throwing light on molecular logic gates The multifunctional molecule, which can be reconfigured by light, could be used in data storage devices and biomedicine, including nanoparticle tracking and drug delivery.
InternetNews May 11, 2010	PC, Memory Prices Seen Rising in 2010 Latest check of the supply chain shows demand for memory surging, with the likely result of driving up for prices for PCs throughout 2010.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Nanorings promise big memory Researchers have found a way to cause magnetic cobalt nanoparticles to spontaneously assemble into rings that are less than 100 nanometers across. Because the molecule is small, memory made from it could hold a great deal of information.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Samuel K. Moore	Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers Adding cores slows data-intensive applications.
Technology Research News December 31, 2003	Shape key to strong sensors Researchers have found a possible explanation for why a pair of semiconducting compounds -- mixes of silver and selenium or tellurium -- are strong magnetic sensors over a wide range of magnetic field strengths.
The Motley Fool December 24, 2010 Balachander Suriyanarayanan	IBM's "Racetrack" Closer to Starting Its Engine A memory technology that could enable a handheld device like an MP3 player to store about 3,500 movies or 500,000 songs is a step closer to commercial viability, researchers at IBM say.
Technology Research News December 3, 2003	Spin material handles heat Researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have doped, or mixed the semiconductor zinc oxide with the metal manganese to make a ferromagnetic semiconductor material that retains its magnetic properties at temperatures as high as 177 degrees Celsius.
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Peter Kogge	Next-Generation Supercomputers Supercomputers are now running our search engines and social networks. But the heady days of stunning performance increases are over
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 Eric Smalley	Nanotube Memory Scheme is Magnetic Researchers have designed a type of nanotube flash memory that has a potential capacity of 40 gigabits per square centimeter and 1,000 terabits per cubic centimeter.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	Laser pulses could speed memory Researchers from the Research Institute for Materials in the Netherlands and Siemens AG in Germany have found a way to switch a magnetic bit more quickly. The potential payoff is faster computer memory.
Wired April 2000 David Voss	Instant Access Memory He's already set off one computer storage revolution. Now Stuart Parkin is reengineering RAM so we'll never have to boot up again.
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Justin Mullins	The Church of Microsoft The software maker tries to get ahead of the move to hundreds of processor cores per chip in a deal with the MareNostrum supercomputer
IEEE Spectrum July 2012 Miguel Miranda	The Threat of Semiconductor Variability As transistors shrink, the problem of chip variability grows
Technology Research News April 6, 2005	Optics Demo Does Quantum Logic Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Heidelberg in Germany have demonstrated a method of using four photons to form a logic gate that can be used for quantum computing.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Neil Savage	Chip for Future Eye Implants Runs on Picowatts, Thanks to New Deep-Sleep Tech Chip could run for a year on millimeter-sized battery.
Chemistry World July 20, 2012 Simon Hadlington	New type of chemical bond around dwarf stars The work, led by Trygve Helgaker at the University of Oslo in Norway, not only provides insights into fundamental aspects of electronic interactions with magnetic fields, but also sheds light on the exotic chemistry that exists in stellar environments.
InternetNews March 15, 2010	Memory Rebound Seen Helping Micron Will memory makers finally begin seeing some green?
The Motley Fool July 6, 2009 Anders Bylund	This New Technology Has a Halo Effect The DDR3 memory standard is about to blow the old technology out of the water. How do you invest in this sea change?
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Guizzo & Goldstein	Expressway To Your Skull PlayStation 3's ability to blast data between chips is one of the secrets to a mind-bending gaming experience. Sony has a lot staked on the success of the PS3 -- hundreds of millions of dollars, and maybe its future as the preeminent maker of consumer electronics.
InternetNews February 25, 2008 Andy Patrizio	MetaRAM Bets on High-Capacity Memory Breakthrough MetaRAM debuts with high-capacity DRAM using cheaper, low-capacity chips.
InternetNews December 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Multi-Core a Drag on Some HPCs Turns out throwing more cores at certain high performance computing tasks can make the situation worse.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Guizzo & Santo	The Runners-up: More Earthshaking Chips These 13 great little chips didn't make our list -- mainly because we ran out of space in print. And, well, one isn't even a chip
InternetNews July 10, 2006 David Needle	Freescale First to 'Yes, MRAM'? Freescale Semiconductor said today that it's the first to start volume production of 4 megabit Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory. IBM first developed the technology in the 1970s.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Rachel Courtland	Alternative Memories Get the Carbon Nanotube Test RRAM and phase-change memory - two alternatives to flash - have been constructed using carbon nanotube electrodes.
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2004 Eric J. Lerner	Briefs Opening the x-ray water window... Zero thermal expansion... Magnetoresistor computing... A pressure-driven battery
AskMen.com Shannon Clark	Memory Foods Keep your brain healthy with these memory-enhancing foods.
Chemistry World April 7, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Cells get in line Magnetic nanoparticles that 'shepherd' cells into neat lines have been designed by American scientists.
InternetNews August 25, 2009	Sun, IBM Keep Flying the RISC Flag It may be an x86 world, but IBM and even battered and bruised Sun are sticking with the RISC architecture.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Hot tip boosts disk capacity Many research efforts are aimed at increasing the amount of information that can be stored in a given area of magnetic media like computer disks. One challenge is making smaller magnetic bits that are stable at room temperature.