Japanese Develop New IC with MRAM + Arithmetic Unit
By mertero, Section News Posted on Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 11:55:36 PM PST
Hitachi and a Japanese university has developed a new chip containing both 'logic' (arithmetic unit) and an MRAM (spintronics-based) chip.
Placing memory and logic together makes it quicker and the MRAM means that the memory does not have to be 'refreshed' all the time (it's non-volatile).