After tons of technology innovations in the memory chip industrty, the MRAM’s are finally here. Rather than relying on electric charges to store memory, this uses magnetic properties like orienatation of magnetic layers in the cells to determince the values of data bits. Unlike flash memory, this has infinite read/write endurance. 

This will give it the capability to store memory even after the device is powered off. Using MRAM in a PC, will give you instant reboot and shutdown capabilites, with the need to probably only recycle time dependant scenarios like network connections etc.

It will be interesting to watch FSL’s stock price over the coming months. 

Almost a month since my last post. Lots of interesting things have happened since.

Gaurav and Ashish were here in Seattle just before the long weekend. It was great catching up with things, talking about old stories.

A bunch of us went down to Yellowstone on the long weekend for 4 days. It was a lot of fun. Took Gigs of pictures. I am still in the process of sorting and touching the pictures but I have uploaded a few of them on my MSN Space. I realized that sharing pictures is still a pain, and a lot of work needs to be done in this area. Almost all photo sharing services comprimise on quality. While its still OK with today’s technology, this is one area that needs a lot of improvement, especially with 7 MP camera phones lurking in the market for over an year now and the median MegaPixel ranges for digital cameras are already in the 5-8 MP range.

The Soccer World Cup, the biggest sporting event of the year just got over.  Argentina was my pick, though I felt they were a bit unlucky to lose the Quarter’s. Italy took their fourth, and they are now second, only to Brazil on all time World Cup Final Victories. It wasn’t a fitting finish to the Grand Finale, with things going down to Penalty Shootouts. I wonder why they didnt have the Golden Goal rule this time. Perhaps the should be do it the basketball way and have repetitive 15 minute overtimes until it gets over.

Our summer cricket league is also underway this weekend. We will be starting our pratice sessions today and looking for an unprecedented three-in-a-row Championship wins.