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One advantage to magnetic memory is that it can store data permanently, as is the case with HDDs, but magnetic fields are difficult to isolate and to flip at low power. Both of these issues will have to be overcome for magnetic data storage to take the performance crown, and that day me be sooner thanks to the MIT researchers. They discovered a way to stop magnetic domains travelling around 'racetrack memory' at 20 meters per second, and then flip their state by applying a voltage; not a magnetic field. The key to this was a highly ionized material resting between the memory and the electrodes. The material had its atoms stripped of its electrons, giving them an electric charge, so when the voltage is applied to the electrode above, the ions would be drawn to or repelled by it. This in turn can change the magnetic bit below the material.

Potentially this magneto-ionic design could lead to others, creating a new family of devices. Fortunately the materials used to create the current device are simple oxide materials already used in semiconductor manufacturing.

Source: MIT

The Seattle SoCs are expected to begin sampling in the first half of 2014, with shipments set for the latter half. A pair of more tradtional server processors were also unveiled today, with the Berlin CPUs being available in the first half of 2014 and the Warsaw CPUs in the first quarter of next year. The Berlin parts are quad-core chips available in an APU or standalone CPU format, are based on the Steamroller architecture (the second major revision of Bulldozer), and includes support for heterogenous Uniform Memory Access. As for Warsaw, those are twelve or sixteen-core Piledriver CPUs for server motherboard with two or four sockets. AMD claims the Warsaw parts will offer "significantly improved performance-per-watt" than the Opteron 6300 line.

Source: AMD

QuickRec is a prototype multicore architecture designed specifically to record everything the processor does while running a piece of software. This data can then be examined by developers, and even replayed to isolate any errors. This includes accidental errors and those caused by malicious code meant to disrupt legitimate programs attempting to complete their tasks.

Such a computer 'black box' could have great influence on how multithreaded programs are monitored and debugged in the future. Importantly, it does not negatively impact the performance of the processor.

Source: University of Illinois College of Engineering

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Fluid-Enhanced Crystal Engineering, or FLUENCE, is the name of the process which preserves previous developments for printable electronics, while improving them as well. An issue with printed electronics is that the materials do not conduct electricity very well, and this is partly because the crystals within the material are chaotically aligned. This impairs the flow of electrical current, but the researchers designed a special printing blade that mixes the ink to create a more uniform film. They also patterned the substrate the polymer is printed on to, in order to prevent unruly crystals from forming.

When tested the new thin films were more than 10 times better at conducting electricity, than films created with similar methods. Now the researchers are testing FLUENCE on other polymers, to see what materials it works with, and have seen some success already.

Source: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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The AE800 is a USB 3.0 external hard drive that offers wireless data transfers with compatibility up to 802.11n and can also act as a wireless hotspot for up to eight devices. The DashDrive Durable UD311 is a USB 3.0 flash drive that is built to withstand impacts and water in a compact design. The DashDrive Elite SE810 is a solid state drive that can be connected using USB 3.0 SuperSpeed or Thunderbolt for read and write speeds up to 490MB/s and 400MB/s, respectively.

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Source: CPU World

Despite the SSD's size, it packs some serious performance. Sequential read performance can be as high as 1,400 MB/s. If that number means nothing to you, it translates to the SSD reading 500 GB of data in just six minutes; whereas a normal hard drive would need 40 minutes to do the same.

Despite the recent move to mass production, Samsung said that major notebook manufacturers have already received the new SSDs with capacities of 128 GB, 256 GB, and 512 GB. So hopefully we will start seeing slim notebooks with blazing fast SSDs.

Source: MaximumPC

The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon that affects the movement of particles with spin values, such as electrons. When these particles move, even if they are initially moving in a straight line, they will veer off to one side or another, depending on their spin. This effect could have implications in quantum computers, so researchers are trying to measure it but it can be difficult to resolve it from other effects. This is why the researchers turned to a BEC, which is a cloud of atoms that behave as though they are all a single, large atom. Such an exotic state is actually simpler to work with, for the purpose of isolating the spin Hall effect.

To measure the spin Hall effect on the BEC, the researchers used a laser to push the cloud of atoms, and found that it curved to one side as it moved. While this essentially created an atom spin transistor, with the ability to manipulate spin currents like modern transistors effect electrical currents, a BEC would likely not be practical to build a logic gate from. Instead it will serve as a system to study the spin Hall effect in greater detail.

Source: NIST

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