With this arrangement, Samsung and Nanosys will work together to create a new generation of cost effective, higher-efficiency products in the fields of solar, LED, memory, semiconductor, and display.

ENGADGET: Nanosys forms alliance with Samsung to further the art of nanotech, fight the gray goo menace

TOKYO-Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced that the company has developed a prototype memory element for a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) that achieves the world's lowest1 power consumption yet reported, indicating that it has the potential to surpass the power consumption efficiency of SRAM as cache memory.

ENGADGET: Toshiba goes perpendicular to solve MRAM's power issues, rethink cache memory

In developing early data processing systems, the high cost of memory and storage led to a premium being placed on the efficiency of application data access and retrieval.

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