By Mark LaPedus
In the 1980s, there were two separate innovations that changed the landscape in a pair of related fields—nonvolatile memory and storage.
In one effort, Toshiba invented the flash memory, thereby leading to NAND and NOR devices. On another front, physicists discovered the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect, a technology that forms the basis of hard disk drives, magnetores...
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