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*Only applicable to phones powered by Atom Chip.

How could you ever forget about AtomChip's Nanomicronics?

I guess. It's hard to imagine WHAT program they could be using to create such lousy images. While personally, I use Photoshop on a daily basis, GIMP is a very functional editor, and can do much of what Photoshop can. (GIMP can even a few things that Photoshop cannot, particularly with regards to opening certain image types, although at the moment, I'm at a loss to remember which image format it was that I had to use GIMP for, because Photoshop wouldn't open it. I think it may have been XPM.)

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd figure that they were using Microsoft Paint, on Windows 2000 or before. Back when it could barely write JPEG if you had the right additional software.

The particular image that I was talking about can be found here. It's full of visual artifacts and bad editing. Only a fool would think it was an actual product. @.~

Hey! They have a "PATENT PANDING!" (see bottom... the pictures are horrible - the shadows are all wrong). Everybody loves a panda...

Not to mention that they have no moving parts. How exciting is that! A microchip with no moving parts!

If you want to read something really baffling, check out their solar chip page here.

Look more carefully at the pictures at the bottom of that page.
Looks so real I'm speechless.

Surely an Oscar being one of the awards won in Europe would indicate that this is a very clever hoax:

page: http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page7.html
image: http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimages/IMAGE043.jpg

Gentlemen, I think we've found the Borat of CES :)

Surely an Oscar being one of the awards won in Europe would indicate that this is a very clever hoax:

page: http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page7.html
image: http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimages/IMAGE043.jpg

Gentlemen, I think we've found the Borat of CES :)

Check this out on their website:
http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html
Welcome to the World of Nanomicrons and Beyond!

wtf is a nanomicron?

They appear to have actually achieved at least one patent. Their news page contains a link to a description of "quantum technology" Which appears to be an abstract consisting of a jumble of barely related words, a reference to an otherwise unknown "Gendlin effect." and a child's sketch of a design for magnetic core memory.

However a google patents search uncovers an actual patent! Which is basically the same, but with more child's sketches, such as one of a transistor, and a page that appears to be practice isometric drawings, and several pages of black & white photoshop cloud noise renderings.

It's much easier to see if you look at the full size photo rather than the reduced webpage embed. It's still not clear to me that that's an "optical lens" but there's definitely more going on there than a plain old audio jack.

This page suggests that the memory devices they are creating have a small display to show the free space on the chip. Wouldn't this suggest that they are making these chips filesystem aware and able to read free space? Adds to the bogus factor... not to mention the 3rd grade quality of their site...

Their MicroSD card and adapter at the bottom of page 3 is even better... Welcome to the world of Nanomicrons and Beyond!!

And they have the Photoshopping skills of a Nigerian scammer.

My favorite is the picture on the very bottom of the page you linked, showing the "small display on the physical hardware itself".

I just found my favourite part. This page has details of their "NvIOpRAM 24GB-128GB" (whatever that is), however the key to the diagram states that part 2 (as indicated several times on the diagram) is an 'optical lens' when it is quite clearly the end (and third contact) of a 3.5mm audio jack (as should be obvious to anyone who has ever used any form of personal audio).

It seems they've removed the following line from their page source

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

Only more laughable is their "Stationary adapter, which is connected to the optical fiber and electrical cables" shown here

http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimages/256Mx61.jpg

which looks deceptively like an 1/8" stereo connector.

There is absolutly No way this is real. Check out this and look at the photo on the left, halfway down the page which is quite obviosly a headphone/audio jack. Most of the others are photoshoped or have a cobbled together look(remember Brian Frouds photo books? Particularly "Strange stains and misterious smells").

I smell investor bait and patent grabing: in ten years time, when this is actualy possible I see them coming out of the woodwork and suing anyone using this emerging tech.

• SVG Israel New Technology, Ltd. (President)
• Compu-Technics (Chairman of the board)

Administrative Contact:
WIPOI
Shimon Gendlin
21 Reed Lane
Westbury, NY 11590
US
Phone: 516-368-4800
Email: shimon_gendlin@msn.com
Msn? come on..

http://atomchip.com/

There is already a company interested in buying that technology for their laptops.
For the fans and the curious ones, it has already been covered here.

Just in case you need to see the true state of this qbit-technology visit http://www.atomchip.com/ and http://www.atomchip.org/ for your reading pleasure. Sure worked for me.

This: http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html

1TB Non-Volatile Quantum STORAGE ATA IDE

http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html (scroll to the bottom of the page)

Spec:

DC Input Voltage: 5.0V ±10%
Standby: 0.5microA
Read: 1.5 microA
Write: 2.5 microA
Reading time:60 ns
Update time:120 ns
Temperature Operating: -50+125C
Humidity Operating: 5 - 95%
Shock Operating [max]:2,000G

OK the price is maybe too high for average user but... who knows in the near future when the
techonology will "get old" enough... is should drop for sure

No my poor friend. You are just reading reviews on the wrong sites. Here is the laptop you are dreaming about. Previously covered on slashdot also. Leave these AMD and Intel Fanboy fools to drool over their new 'petty innovations'... :)

6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop

I seem to recall that an article was posted on /. a few months ago about this as found here: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/ 07/1241216

And here is the company's webpage: http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page5.html

See! Proof that Quantum-Optical computing has already been done!

Ok, so maybe this would be the first non-vaporware quantum chip...

check it out.... the future is now.

http://atomchip.com/

lol.....

May the Farce be with You!

A week from today CES 2006 will start. One of the booths will hold Atom Chip http://www.atomchip.com/. They say they already have a terabyte ram chip and a 2 terabyte solid state replacement for the hard drive. They are suppose to demonstrate their new super laptop with that and much more.

I'm not sure how one would fake a concept.

you might wanna take notes from http://atomchip.com/ that guy.

i think it goes something like get junk patent, find dumb rich investor looking to get in on the newest technology, show them your junk patent and lots opf silly videos and get cash and then make sure they can't find you when they realize you just wanted the cash for yourself... and don't have a real company...

Give me optical or give me death!

http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html

They do have patents:
http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page2.html
Throw the numbers there into:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm
The EU site is below:
http://www.european-patent-office.org/
Which lead me to here:
http://www.espacenet.com/getstarted/index.en.htm
Which is where I stop before submitting this message to slashdot.

I was prepared to believe it until I saw the audio jack labeled as 'Removable NvIOpRAM' (http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html).. that is just such an obvious joke (didn't see the photoshopped system properties screenshot until much later.. 1TB? Windows XP can't address 1TB...)

It looks like they have a fnatastic new use for it too
these guys [ http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html ] would love it ! it sounds like the perfect complementary technology to their unique advancement of computing!

Seriously, this nanotech stuff kicks ass, if it doesnt have the same write burn flash memory has, then this stuff would make solid state storage possible and FAST :D no more noisy hard drive... Perfect. No more worrying about over using your iPod Nano, changing your songs to often. All those nagging hassles GONE :D

I see they missed the most important device of all, the mega-uber-1337-6.7GHz, eleventy-billion TB laptop

using chips from the Atom Chip Corporation

http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html

I am sure Dianetics is involved here somewhere.

Look at the pisspoor job he did on the Memory counter.

The "Quantum II" emblazoned on the photo of the CPU looks a bit dodgy when you zoom in. The JPG artifacts surrounding the text make me think that they were added to the (already compressed) image of some chunk of alloy. http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/Processorclosed5.98x5.67.jpg

And what is the magical name of that file:

http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/ces2004-floor.jpeg.jpg

What a bunch of assclowns.

Kristopher

Several things strike me as bogus about this.

#1 The specs say "Weight: 1.9kg(when fully equipped with AtomChip® Quantum® II processor) and 2,20kg(when fully equipped with 4 x Intel® Pentium® M processors"

Meaning that it "supports" quad Pentium Ms. This is bogus, as the chip will not support dual, let alone multi processor SMP.

#2 The quoted spec of "6.8 ghz" seems strikingly similar to "4x1.7Ghz" Pm or 6.8ghz. Hence, again bogus. See falacy #1

#3 the interface for the storage device is labeled on board as "IDEX1," which means that it is an IDE implementation of CF onboard. Max speed is maybe 20MB/s, hardly operable for a "6.8ghz" machine

#4 it has a "Windows XP" sticker, which you can only carry as a VAR if you have done Windows XP certifications.

#5 "PRO/Wireless 2100/2200BG/2915ABG network connection" These are three different chips... pick one, cause you can't pick all three. 2200BG is a centrino chip, meaning that it would nont work with the custom opti-quantum cpu.

#6 whats "Bluetoth"

#7 "welcome to the world of nanomicrons" wtf is a nanomicron, small microns? is that like inch-feet? or something? try taking a class in physics.

#8 http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/Teacher.jpeg

That said, I will eat my words gladly if anything of this turns out true. Anyone up for a trip to CES this year?

As if enough ownage hasn't been dished out against this company, here's a bit more...

http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html - 512GB SODIMM-144, eh?

A 144 pin FP/EDO SODIMM has 8 CAS lines, four RAS lines, 64 data lines and 12 multiplexed CAS/RAS address lines... so, (2^12)^2 * 8CAS * 4RAS * 8 bytes per 64 bits = 4 gigabytes.

Now how about this 1TB SODIMM-200? Lets see. 200 pin SODIMM's have 16 multiplexed address lines, 64 data lines, one RAS and one CAS. Yielding a maximum SODIMM size of (2^16)^2 * 8 = 32 gigabytes.

sheesh, they could have at least bullshitted some sort of new quantum fiber optic microwave memory interface for this stuff...

Yeah, I like the picture of three guys in clean suits gathered around a paper board in a room with a regular split A/C unit, 2 foldable tables, and garden plastic chairs. See: http://atomchip.com/index.html/. I guess I could start a company like that in my garage.

You guys just don't get it. It clearly shows on the first page of their site (http://atomchip.com/) that the Atomic Chip engineers seem to wear their atmospheric suits even in a classroom while working on their cutting edge designs.

Only quantum engineers know that it pays to wear their suits as early as the design process. You guys from the "old chip technology" just don't know that. That's proof to me that the web site is deeply, deeply serious in what it proposes.

The engineer to the right is lead designer, designated by his exposed trouser pants.

You must mean these things... my bullshit detector is going apeshit right now.

How will such a wonder run a laptop on anything other than cold fusion? Wait!"...with very low consumption of electrical energy..." (known in the scientific circles as "electricity".) Wow, they'll never cease to amaze me.

How will such a wonder run a laptop on anything other than cold fusion? Wait!"...with very low consumption of electrical energy..." (known in the scientific circles as "electricity".) Wow, they'll never cease to amaze me.

Anyone else thing the "quantum ram" looks a lot like a CompactFlash card?

http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/HDDComp.jpg