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HP Labs Creates Densest Memory Chips To Date

Posted by timothy on from the gigglebytes dept.

Ruger writes "CRN has this article about memory circuits 10 times more dense than today's silicon chips. R. Stanley Williams, director of Quantum Science Research at HP Labs said the high-density memory his team created fits inside a square micron. That's so small that 1,000 of the circuits could fit on the end of a strand of human hair."

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  1. Huh? by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why do the guys at HP labs want to date memory chips?

    Oh wait... never mind.

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  2. Still trying to get my mind around this... by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can someone put this in terms that make sense for a normal person?
    How many Libraries of Congress would fit in a ponytail?

  3. Butter! by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 3, Funny

    And the success rate for the manufacturing process was only about 20 percent. The biggest challenge was sticking -- something anyone who has fried an egg can understand.

    "When we peeled the mold off, we had a material, or parts of the circuit, just literally pull away," he said. "That's a problem we have to address and improve in our processing."

    The answer to sticky memory circuits is clearly to use butter, lots of butter. Hey, it works for the eggs and the guy said it was compareable...

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  4. Black (memory)hole by jukal · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is alarming! If they continue making progress at current late, it will take only aproximately 42 years until they have created a memory chip so dense, that no bytes can escape, infact the chip sinks through the fabric of space-time. Any data within 42 square kilometers will be suck in through the event horizon. The only escape from being drawn inside is growing a big head, since the Schwarzschild radius is aproximately 30 cm.

  5. Re:Hmmm. The article appears to be missing by GMontag · · Score: 4, Funny

    Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted; the operation requested by the application requires a current record./sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp, line 131

    Naaa, the hair their memory was installed on is blonde ;-)

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  6. Wow. Imagine.... by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...a Beowulf cluster of these would look like Chewbacca.

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    1. Re:Wow. Imagine.... by krenshala · · Score: 2, Funny

      And when they improve the technology, and make it even smaller ... would that make your Beowulf cluster look like an Ewok?

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  7. Silicon Valley-Girl by Pyrosophy · · Score: 2, Funny

    HP Labs Creates Densest Memory Chips To Date

    Great, we'll all have valley-girl memory in our computers by 2005...

    CPU --> Store like 0C 0F 12 14 at totally !3789AC3

  8. Dns? by Viking+Coder · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ths s fntstc! Th mst dns mmry vr md!

    Mb th hckrs knw smthng we dn't..

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  9. Re:HP labs political manoeuvre by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 3, Funny
    If you're posting from work, it's unlikely that anonymous slashdot accounts are enough to hide behind. I would figure that as someone who works at HP you would know this, so either you're offsite or SSHing around the firewall.

    In fact, My employer is monitoring me right now, so let's give them a big round of applause for leveraging their core competencies, value-adding, and remembering that every client begins with "CLI" and there is no "I" in "Quit," and all that.

    Heh. Well. Um... Ah, yes. You firewall guys know I'm kidding right? uh hello?

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