Freescale brings MRAM to market

Freescale Semiconductor has brought the first commercial Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) device, which uses electron spin to store information, to market.

MRAM is electronic memory technology which is almost instantly available, non-volatile, and has a large capacity but with low power demands. MRAM can resist high radiation and can operate in extreme temperature conditions.

MRAM uses magnetic materials combined with conventional silicon circuitry to deliver the speed of SRAM with the non-volatility of Flash in a single, high endurance device. Freescale's commercialisation of this technology could hasten new classes of electronic products offering dramatic advances in size, cost, power consumption and system performance.