Spintronics' initial payoff could be instant-on RAM
Imagine a computer as powerful as the one sitting on your desktop-but small enough to fit into your shirt pocket. Or try a less ambitious concept: Turn on your PC and watch your software programs come up instantly. Gone is all that tedious booting up. As a bonus, you won't lose your work when the fuse blows.
Both of these concepts could grow out of the emerging field known as "spintronics." Experts say instant-on memory could hit the market in five years, and the miniaturization of computing enabled by spintronics will then gain momentum as the technology moves out of the R&D pipeline.
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