Freescale today announced commercial availability of the industry’s first Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM). The non-volatile standard is said to provide read and writing speeds of up to 200 MB/s. Other advantages over conventional flash memory include lower power consumption and resistance to degradation. Freescale’s 4 Mb device, dubbed MR2A16A, is suitable for networking, security, data storage, gaming and printing applications.