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Scientific American on 3-D Chips

Posted by michael on from the tower-of-babel dept.

m5shiv writes: "Scientific American is running a feature on 3-D Memory Chips. These devices look like they will significantly reduce the cost of PDA's and other handheld devices as well as replacing analog film. By stacking devices vertically, density goes up considerably. The company, Matrix Semiconductor, appears to have some very interesting investors such as Kodak, Sony and Microsoft."

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  1. At last! by Schpoonk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good job they finally invented these. I kept losing my 1 and 2-dimensional memory chips down the back of the couch.

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  2. From the title of the /. post... by Xpilot · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I thought it was some kind of gimmick on SciAm's part that allowed us to read their magazines in 3D if we had a decent 3D card... heh... kinda like their April Fool's articles.

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  3. Moore's Hunch by imrdkl · · Score: 3, Funny

    Having been postponed or negated several times now, should we call Moore's law a postulation at best?

  4. Later this year... by elgen · · Score: 3, Funny

    The first products incorporating such 3-D microchips--memory cards cheap enough to use as digital film and audio-recording media--are scheduled to appear later this year.

    ... They've got to hurry. There's only 20 days left...

  5. Damn expensive real estate by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 2, Funny

    "One important factor has remained roughly constant: the cost of semiconductor real estate, at about $1 billion per acre of processed silicon."

    That's the first time I've seen real estate more expensive than in Japan.

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  6. I used to make these by iplayfast · · Score: 2, Funny
    for my Timex Sinclair ZX80. I had a tower of ram stacked 8 high, all soldered together except for one pin which stuck out with a wire running off it to the data bus.