Unless you are a major “Computer Geek” you probably don’t know that your current computer uses a product called DRAM to store its basic instruction set. This is the memory that is involved in starting your computer.
You probably also don’t know that DRAM’s days are numbered. Not only a USA company is one of the leaders in the manufacture of its replacement called MRAM. But Everspin Technologies, Inc. is located right here in the Valley or the Sun.
With MRAM, data is stored by means of magnetic storage elements instead of as electric charges or current flows.
More than 20 Japanese and US chip-related companies are joining forces to develop mass-production techniques for a next-generation chip technology called magnetoresistive random access memory, or MRAM, according to a report in Nikkei's Asian Review. Players in the new research push include Tokyo Electron, Shin-Etsu Chemical, Renesas Electronics, Hitachi, and US memory giant Micron Technology.
The companies "will dispatch a few dozen researchers" to Tohoku University in northern Japan, according to Nikkei. The effort at Tohoku University will be led by professor Tetsuo Endoh. Development will begin in February.
While most companies are just in the process of getting ready to prototype MRAM Everspin is already manufacturing MRAM>
Everspin Technologies is the leading developer and manufacturer of magnetic RAM (MRAM)...Everspin's MRAM is the industry's fastest non-volatile memory [MRAM has] SRAM read/write cycle time, unlimited read/write endurance, [and is] non-volatile for greater than 20-years... Everspin has established an MRAM intellectual property portfolio of more than 600 active patents and applications, many of which are fundamental and essential for MRAM technologies.
The short non-technical version is that MRAM is a better, faster more stable and longer lasting product when compared to the ubiquitous DRAM.
Comany: Everspin Technologies, Inc.
Location: 1347 N. Alma School Road, Suite 220 Chandler, AZ 85224 • 480-347-1111
Website: http://www.everspin.com/
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We have written about patronizing local businesses in passed blogs. Here is an organization that promotes local business in Arizona.
Local First Arizona's goal is simple: Make Arizona a better place by supporting local businesses and building vibrant communities that residents are proud to call home.
Local First Arizona (LFA) is a statewide non-profit organization working to strengthen communities and local economies through growing, supporting, and celebrating locally owned businesses throughout the state of Arizona. LFA is currently the largest organization of its kind in the country with nearly 2,500 members and is a proud member of the Business Alliance of Local Living Economies (BALLE), where our director, Kimber Lanning, serves on the Board of Directors.
Founded in 2003, Stinkweeds owner, Kimber Lanning, along with Cindy Dach of Changing Hands Bookstore and Michael Monti of Monti’s La Casa Vieja began meeting to formulate a strategy to level the playing field for locally owned businesses, and to find a better way to link the locals together.
Lanning emerged as the Executive Director in late 2005. A board of directors was formed with several local business owners and leaders including Dach, Tod Mettler of Duck and Decanter, Howard Fleishmann of Community Tire and Auto, Stacy Bertinelli of NPR Radio, Jeff Williamson of the Phoenix Zoo, and Clint Hickman of Hickman’s Family Farms. This group met monthly at the Duck and Decanter on 16th Street and began to build a following.
They educate consumers, stakeholders, business leaders, and policymakers about the significant economic, civic, and cultural benefits of strong local economies. WThey build vibrant communities that make residents proud to call Arizona home. And when people are proud of their hometown, they tend to care more, to volunteer more, to vote more, and give more. They even cheer a little louder when the home team wins!
Consumers have grown leery of the false sense of savings promised by national chain stores and are becoming acutely aware of the homogenization of our communities. As a result, an explosion of sorts is occurring in Arizona and elsewhere as people look to define a sense of place, community, and quality of life for their families and their futures.
Studies have shown that money stays and re-circulates more often when spent at locally owned businesses. In addition, local businesses help increase home town pride which makes folks more connected to the place they live. And a recent Knight Foundation study showed “connection to place” as the single most leading indicator in places experiencing prosperity across a broad spectrum. At Local First Arizona, they want to build prosperity for all.
MI Printing is a proud member of Local First Arizona.
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The first Monday after Thanksgiving is called Cyber Monday. This means that many folks are online doing their Holiday shopping. The idea is that merchants will have their best prices online rather than inviting shoppers to their brick and mortar stores with low prices there.
Google is reporting (via the NBC Today Show) that up to seventy-five percent of shoppers are using their smartphones and tablets to do at least part of their online research and shopping this year.
Many local service business are not directly affected by the Cyber Monday shopping but if they are online shopping they aren’t using or even thinking about your business.
Did you plan a coupon special to remind them to visit your restaurant and take advantage of your WiFi to do their shopping. Did you have a coupon special to get a discount on an oil change (or whatever you offer as a product or service) that was good just for Cyber Monday? You could also feature a tear-off coupon sheet for a special every week this month. You know it is still not too late to work in a special for at least the last three weeks or begin to plan for the New Year’s Eve specials.
The Christmas holiday sales bonanza is really special if you make it that way for your business. Your specials and promotions need not be expensive. You can take on the big box retailers with planning and service. Use your market niche to nibble away at their sales. Your Christmas shoppers won’t be buried or overrun by the crush they will find at the mall.
Even if you are located at the mall or large shopping center a small business will typically be less busy than your national competitors.
What special coupons or offers is your business placing in every bag, package or handing to every shopper you have? If you aren’t, why aren’t you? Are your competitors out promoting your business?
This Christmas season you can be the leader in local promotions without ever being on air. Tell your business story in a flyer or brochure. Hit the highlights and not try to tell everything at once. What does your business do best? What can a Christmas shopper get from your business and nowhere else?
Consider giving away custom note pads to your customers that remind them to shop your business.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you, your business, family and friends from MI Printing.
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