The radically new type of storage memory is based on a breakthrough technology known as spintronics, which manipulates the two types of independent electrons found in electrical current — called the “spin-up” and “spin-down” electrons. The goal is to enable computing devices to store bits of information by manipulating the magnetic state of a region within a nanowire that is just a few tens of nanometers wide.
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“We discovered that domain walls don’t hit peak acceleration as soon as the current is turned on — it takes them exactly the same time and distance to hit peak acceleration as it does to middle east mobile number list decelerate and eventually come to a stop,” said IBM Research Fellow Dr. Stuart Parkin on Thursday. “Now we know domain walls can be positioned precisely along the racetrack simply by varying the length of the current pulses, even though the walls have mass.”
December 28th, 2010 in News | tags: ibm, storage memory, technology | No Comments
Mozilla launched a new Firefox 4 beta release for PCs and laptops Wednesday featuring expanded support for 3-D graphics, together with a revamped Firefox add-on manager. And on the mobile side, Mozilla introduced several enhancements to the mobile version of Firefox 4 beta for smartphones based on Google’s Android and Nokia’s Maemo platforms.
Firefox 4 Beta Provides Support for 3-D Graphics
The popular browser’s new 3-D enhancements are based on WebGL — an open standard for accelerated 3-D graphics rendering on the web that eliminates the need for users to install special plug-ins. As a result, developers will be able to render amazing visual experiences directly within the browser window, noted Firefox Product Manager Mike Beltzner.
“Firefox 4 beta now supports
WebGL for most modern built-in graphics cards, making it easier for developers to create interactive 3-D games, vivid graphics, and new visual experiences for the web without the use of third-party plug-ins,” Beltzner wrote in a blog.