The first non-volatile memory that was widely used. Core storage held magnetic charges in tiny ferrite cores, and the direction of the flux determined the 0 or 1. Developed in the late 1940s by Jay W.

Lexar is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and will be showcasing its latest technology and a new AI Core Storage strategy at CES 2026. Since it began pioneering memory card standards in 1996 ...

Non-volatile memories are not the main memory (RAM) in computers, tablets and smartphones. However, they can be the main memory in devices such as sensors, industrial controls, point-of-sale terminals ...

Linux programs, when they misbehave, produce core dumps. The reason they have that name is that magnetic core memory was the primary storage for computers back in the old days and many of us still ...