Thursday, 24 October 2013
Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Memory
Memory is known as a process in which a piece of information is first acquired, stored and further retrieved when needed. When we need to make or start up to make new memories, we first encode the information which is later stored in your brain to be retrieved when required. We are often unaware of most of the information stored in our brain. Memory loss is when we are unable to act upon the third process that is ‘retrieving’. We become frustrated and angry after forgetting things to avoid that we entirely need to register the information and retrieve it in a better way, to do that we’ll look up to the top ten’s list of improving Memory.
Sleeping and exercising are two important factors that will allow you to keep your mind fresh and will help you remember your information more accurately. Regarding sleep, you at least need to sleep for six uninterrupted hours which will allow your brain to take rest and wake up with fresh and active memory. Whereas exercise will help increase the blood flow in your body and hence increasing it in your brain, which will make it work more actively and help you memorize things more accurately. Further you can also give your brain a little mental exercise, like problem solving, puzzles and crosswords to make your brain energetic.
Eating the right thing is also known to be an important point regarding keeping the memory power at a nice level. Almonds, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, red apples, berries and walnuts are said to be some vital foods that are good for improving the brain functions and hence improving the memory power. To improve memory one should avoid alcohol and drink a suitable amount of water, whereas skipping meals should not be your thing to do if you want your memory to improve.
Repeating things more than one time is another way to improve your memory. It is a way to learn as well; when a person repeats a line several times he is actually transferring his information from short term memory to long term memory.
A large piece of information is always difficult to memorize, thus what you are supposed to do with it is break it up into pieces. Make smaller chunks of this huge information and take a look into each of these chunks one by one, understand them and then combine them together to make sense. Once you know the smaller chunks, it will be easier for you to memorize the whole information.
Written words have a command to energize your memory and when these words are written by you then this power becomes even more aesthetic. Writing helps your brain to retain the memory faster and it engages more than one sense which helps you to remember the information more accurately.
Information seems to make sense automatically when you visualize it in your own way. Making an image of it in your mind when you see, hear or read it will help you to memorize a particular thing more accurately and you can recall it in a better way and more quickly.
Connecting new information to older ones which you never forget will definitely make you memorize the information in future. When you relate the things with previous information it will help you make a chain of memory that you will never forget in future as well.
Did you ever think why do you remember a song better than a science chapter? Mnemonics it is! Mnemonics is a very useful tool to help you memorize things in a much faster and accurate way. Anything that comes with a rhyme, song, acronyms or tune will be remembered in a better pattern and in a precise way.
A structured and organized data is always easier to understand, acquire and later retrieve. When information is set before you in a planned and formed way, it will definitely be easier for you to memorize it and later when you will have to retrieve it, you will easily take up the same organized data that you understood at the first place and use it where so ever you need to. Scrambled up and clustered data is one of the worst things that can give you and your memory a tough time.
The most important thing you must do to retain information is give your 100% when you are getting it. Do not try to do several tasks at a time, concentrate on one thing at a time. Give your full attention to the information and avoid any other blockage in the way to information and your brain. Once you focus and understand the information you will be able to retain it in the best way.
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Samsung's New 3D V-NAND Flash Memory in Production
Samsung said Tuesday that it has begun volume production of 3D Vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory offering significant durability and write performance improvements over current NAND flash memory chips based on planar structures using floating gates.
The South Korean tech giant's new 3D V-NAND products are being produced in 128GB densities per chip for a "wide range of consumer electronics and enterprise applications, including embedded NAND storage and solid state drives (SSDs)," the company said.
Samsung's new flash technology offers two to 10 times the reliability of current-generation, 10-nanometer class floating gate NAND flash memory and double the write performance of the most advanced flash memory currently on the market, the company said.
"The new 3D V-NAND flash technology is the result of our employees' years of efforts to push beyond conventional ways of thinking and pursue much more innovative approaches in overcoming limitations in the design of memory semiconductor technology," Jeong-Hyuk Choi, senior vice president of flash product and technology at Samsung, said in a statement.
"Following the world's first mass production of 3D Vertical NAND, we will continue to introduce 3D V-NAND products with improved performance and higher density, which will contribute to further growth of the global memory industry."
The new technology utilizes a "proprietary vertical cell structure based on 3D Charge Trap Flash (CTF) technology and vertical interconnect process technology to link the 3D cell array," Choi added.
Last month, Samsung's fabs began cranking out eMMC 5.0 memory modules—billed as the "world's fastest embedded memory"—for next-generation smartphones and tablets. Volume production started in late July for 11.5-by-13-millimeter eMMC 5.0 devices in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB densities, Samsung said, adding that the small package size makes the modules "ideal for mobile devices where space on the printed circuit board is extremely limited."
Meanwhile, earlier this week a new startup called Crossbar came out of stealth mode with what it claimed was a breakthrough in memory technology of its own. The California company said its alternative to current NAND Flash memory chips , which Crossbar calls "Resistive RAM" or RRAM, could serve up a terabyte of storage and playback capacity on "an IC smaller than a postage stamp."