Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2

Posted by chrisd on Wednesday January 15, 2003 @07:28PM from the laser-beams-are-cool-too dept.

DeAshcroft writes "As reported in Technology Research News, researchers from Tohoku University, the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science, and Pioneer Corporation have demonstrated a prototype ferroelectric (as opposed to ferromagnetic) storage mechanism with density of 1.5 trillion dots per square inch. No word on why Japanese researchers are using square inches, but the new storage benchmark is the DVD. This is 47 DVD's in a square inch, or over 20KiloDVD's per square cubit. Original paper appeared in the Applied Physics Letters." In related memory news, an Anonymous Coward writes "It appears the the ever present pause between photo's on a digital camera might finally be fixed. A company now claims http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C1396/ ) to have kicked up the write speed on a compact flash card up to 4MB/sec. This means we lesser photographers can now get the right action shot just by volume alone ;-)"

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OT: karma by autopr0n · 2003-01-15 20:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sorry for posting this OT, but I just noticed that no karam information is displayed on my user page, and my +1 bonus seems to have dissapeared. Has anyone else noticed this?

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There just is not, nor will there (hopefully) ever by sanermind · 2003-01-15 21:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...be that much pr0n in the world.

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