Tohoku University and NEC Corporation have developed and demonstrated the world's first content addressable memory (CAM) in CPUs that both maintains the same high operation speed and nonvolatile operation as existing circuits when processing and storing data on a circuit while power is off. The part of this achievement was acquired by a research program "Research and Development of Ultra-low Power Spintoronics-based VLSIs" supported by Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST) by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). This achievement was presented on June 17, 2011, in an international conference "2011 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits" held in Kyoto from June 13 to 17.

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