A small team of researchers at MIT's Materials Research Laboratory have developed a transistor that's just as good as those used to make flash memory chips, but with the added advantage of not wearing away with use. Instead of the usual silicon-based engineering, this one is made from a ferromagnetic material.
Flash memory has revolutionized the storage industry and you can buy extremely fast and capacious NVMe SSDs for relatively little money these days. Despite all the advances in flash manufacturing, though, the technology still has one major issue—the tiny cells that store the digital information have a limited lifespan, as they wear away with each write/erase cycle.
