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Scientific American on 3-D Chips

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. if only ... by phragle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I could get a first post!

  2. Re:3-D by TheMidget · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Any time I see 3D, I think of those =3D spews of crappy mail clients, which still insist on using quoted-printable.

  3. Duke NukeM 3D by webword · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't help but think that Duke Nukem 3D will be much better using these chips!

  4. Microsoft!?!?!? by AltGrendel · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Well, there goes the neighborhoood.

    Obligitory /. bashing of M$.

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  5. Not so funny to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It looks at well as you necessity to appear it for is of what making in case that that you start a first post, because you started only one!
    Now we will have some amusement for our health and appreciation.
    - The delicious taste and satisfendo itself of cakes of Urinal will be pleased and its family entire.
    - When you receive music with the illegal ways, you you support the propagation of communism.
    - At the current moment, my region lower is not covered by the pants.
    - Who knows that evil lurks in the hearts of the men? Snuggle, the bear softening of the screen, knows.
    - Tomorrow I will participate in the removal of my proper liver. Televised in narrow channel four will be alive.
    - Hooked in leprosy worked for me!

  6. Re:3D by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    3D - Porn. Yeah!

  7. :'( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I has read the About Matrix
    But I don't get What is the Matrix.
    But I still want to join the Matrix team. :)

  8. building 3D chips one layer at a time by mblase · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    It doesn't seem to be discussed in this article, but there is much progress being made on "3D copiers," computerized machines that will build complicated 3-dimensional objects one layer at a time out of ice or plastics. Because of how these objects are constructed, shapes that would be impossible to carve from a solid mass can be "molded" from the bottom up or from the inside-out.

    If 3D chip design proliferates, I predict that these two technologies will eventually merge. Sophisticated chips will be assembled one layer at a time, perhaps one layer of atoms at a time, with electronic pathways twisting and turning through a three-dimensional block of material designed to ferry heat away from the core of the device. The main advantage, of course, would be enabling shorter pathways from one part of the chip to another, improving further as design improves. Perhaps in time motherboards would be replaced by "motherblocks" and the entire computer will become far more portable.

  9. Re:Ending up down the wrong path by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who is the idiot who marked this interesting?

  10. great but why can't they work on more irq's... by sad+sack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    weather they rain on our toys with pre programed chips or if they'll use it to build a proccesor with windows -upgradable built in so billy boy can crash our systems from his office , when we all jump ship and start running lenux..... but with all the advances with p-4's why dont we get more irq's or more ide options built on the motherboards?