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MRAM gets closer to the core

Improvements in magnetic tunnel junctions allows a 2 MB magnetic random-access memory array to be scaled for L4 cache applications.

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Fig. 1: Memory hierarchy and MTJ.

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Liu, Y., Yu, G. MRAM gets closer to the core. Nat Electron 2, 555–556 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-019-0340-0

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