CMRR

Founded in 1983 by a consortium of U.S. data storage companies and UC San Diego, the Center for Memory and Recording Research (CMRR) is one of the world's leading university centers for memory, data storage, and information technologies, and for the materials and devices that make them possible. Our interdisciplinary faculty, researchers, and students, working with industry sponsors and government partners, advance the technologies the AI era runs on: next-generation magnetic recording, non-volatile memories, and storage systems and architectures. Beneath these technologies lies the fundamental science we pursue with equal force, with reach well beyond information storage: quantum and emergent materials, novel devices, and new ways to see and understand matter at the nanoscale. Four decades of pushing the frontiers have prepared us for the most consequential decade yet: between 2026 and 2036, the world will store more data than in all of prior history, while new materials and devices redefine how information is stored, processed, and sensed. CMRR is discovering the materials, building the technologies, and training the people to meet that future.

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