Already, Parkin's team has been able to demonstrate the advantages of this new storage solution by applying it to existing flash memory chips. His team was able to generate about "250 of these magnetic domain walls in one racetrack" which, when applied to flash, could increase storage capacity by a factor of 100. And, what's more, it won't ever wear out, meaning it'd be infinitely rewritable. That's something flash memory simply cannot do in its current state.
Watch as Parkin explains how racetrack memory could pave the way for more efficient, more compact computing devices.
Stay tuned for part two of our inside look at IBM's Almaden research facility.