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Micron Technology's stock surged past its buy point due to strong sales of high-bandwidth memory products for AI data centers, benefiting from increased adoption of AI chips. The overall memory storage industry, including companies like Seagate, Western Digital, Pure Storage, and NetApp, is also performing well amid rising AI demand, contributing to a bullish market trend in the tech sector.
Physicists at Rice University have discovered a phase-changing quantum material that could potentially be used to create nonvolatile memory capable of storing quantum bits of information, or qubits, even when a quantum computer is powered down. The material, an iron-germanium-tellurium alloy, can be toggled between two electronic phases using heat, and the researchers found that the arrangement of vacancies in the crystal's lattice determines the phase. This discovery could potentially reduce errors in quantum computing and pave the way for flash-like memory for qubits.
Neuroscientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that memory formation occurs through the continuous creation of new connectivity patterns between specific engram cells in different brain regions. Engram cells are activated by experiences and change to hold information in our brains. The researchers used genetic techniques and optogenetics to study how engram cells form connections and identified a protein involved in regulating this connectivity. This study sheds light on the mechanism behind memory storage in the brain and provides insights into how we learn and remember.
Researchers at Rockefeller University have discovered that the anterior thalamus, an area of the brain not typically associated with memory processing, plays a vital role in converting short-term memories to long-term memories. By stimulating this area in mice, researchers were able to enhance the consolidation of memories that mice would usually forget. The study will have broad implications for future research into the thalamus' role in memory storage.