Word: schmergel
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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Like MacGregor, Greg Schmergel is a serial entrepreneur. If his company, Nantero, in Woburn, Mass., is successful, it will eventually add about five minutes to everyone's day. The company wants to build an "instant-on" computer that doesn't need to boot...
...weight. Pairs of tubes store data by locking together when a current runs through them and stay together even when the computer power is switched off and back on. The tubes remain linked until separated by a countercurrent, so their memory is retained. And these chips have other advantages. Schmergel says that within three years, Nantero can bring to market chips with NRAM that can store 10 times as much data as a silicon chip the same size while operating faster and with less heat. "They're not saying much publicly about their approach," says Steven Glapa, president...
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