IBM and TDK are jointly researching and developing a new form of high-speed computer memory that should use less power, last forever and hold information when power is lost. The companies are looking ...

Some day soon, we may have trouble explaining to our kids the concept of a computer booting up. Just as vacuum-tube radios and their obligatory warm-up time now seem quaint, so too will computers with ...

On this day in tech history, An Wang filed a patent which would become the basis of magnetic core memory. After receiving his PhD in applied physics, Wang began working at the Harvard Computation ...

Magnetic Core memory was the RAM at the heart of many computer systems through the 1970s, and is undergoing something of a resurgence today since it is easiest form of memory for an enterprising ...