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Buckminsterfullerene Strikes Again - Nanotube RAM

Posted by timothy on from the when-it's-in-my-pocket-and-in-retail-stores dept.

putaro writes "Nanotube based RAM, under development by Nantero, promises to deliver densities of over 1 terabit per cm^2, is non-volatile and faster than current DRAM. The Economist has a nice story. Forget about just kicking DRAM's and FLASH's butt, is this finally the end of magnetic storage as well?"

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  1. Excellent... by inkedmn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Something else I can stare longingly at on newegg while knowing full well i'll have to sell my wife and 2 pints of plasma to actually buy it...

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    1. Re:Excellent... by jo_ham · · Score: 3, Funny

      Other readers of /. will also be eagarly anticipating this since it will finally enable scientists to build a memory big enough that can fit inside a head-shaped space to create their future wives.

    2. Re:Excellent... by bestguruever · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sell my wife for this stuff? Nah, it can't be that cheap.

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    3. Re:Excellent... by Troll_Kamikaze · · Score: 5, Funny

      knowing full well i'll have to sell my wife

      Well, you're off to a good start, having just placed an ad in perhaps the most undersupplied market in the world: Slashdot.

    4. Re:Excellent... by anon*127.0.0.1 · · Score: 3, Funny

      That would lead to a wife who is smarter and has a better memory then me.

      I'm not sure that's quite what I want.

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  2. The dome is great by Blaine+Hilton · · Score: 2, Funny
    The implications of the geodesic dome are just being explored, if this new type of memory is anything like the dome I expect we will hear more good things about it in the future.

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  3. Now all we need by da5id · · Score: 3, Funny

    Get some people working on power supplys and rod logic, and dimond age here we come.

  4. Paper's far more efficient by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    1 terabit per cm^2...

    I can write a byte's worth on a cm^2 piece of paper; Just repeat many times and stack; when measuring measure from above.

  5. Re:wow by Eudial · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nanotubes can't have sex.

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  6. Re:wow by dAzED1 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Though the idea of using a material that burns when exposed to a camera flash, for storage, is a little unnerving... Anyone know how they plan to address that and other problems/inherent properties of nanotubes?"

    Now, I'm not there, not involved with the company at all, but I'm going to venture a guess and say that maybe, just maybe, they won't have the nanotubes exposed and just lying around? Maybe, just maybe, the nanotube wafers will be, oh I dunno, enclosed in something? Cause where a flash would hurt it, I imagine a well-placed finger would hurt them too.

    Just a thought.

  7. Re:What does that mean in practical terms? by Vengie · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can we get that in libraries of congress per ipod please? hehehe....

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  8. Finally... by gallir · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll be able to start a Java applet in Mozilla running on top of KDE.

    Just kidding, in fact I just want to run Nautilus.

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  9. So should I postpone buying my new computer? by abhikhurana · · Score: 2, Funny

    The subject says it all....

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  10. How about motherboards? by axxackall · · Score: 3, Funny
    Still 200Mhz for system bus? With all those 4Ghz CPU and nanotube-based memory, seems to me that the motherboards is the worst part of the PC.

    Oops, sorry. I forgot cases, where usually there is not enough of power sockets and spaces for additional hard-drives. And don't forget floppy drives - they are still here, in most PCs I see in the store.

    I can easyly imagine to see, in a year or two, a PC with several TB of nanotube-based RAM and 1.44MB floppy drive, all connected to AOL with 56K modem.

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  11. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    neither can slashdot readers

  12. This Just In . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Scientists at MIT announced today the latest in a long series of commercially viable nanotube products. Following up ultrastrong rope, room-temperature superconductors, and ultra fast and dense memories, they unveiled the worlds smallest, lightest sippy straw.

    While some problems remain with the "BuckyStraw", they have demonstrated a mosquito using one to enjoy a blood feast through an alpacca sweater. Among the barriers to full commercialization are figuring out how to bend the little buggers to make high tech SillyStraws, fabricate little folds so they can be bent to allow sipping while reclining, and reducing the internal friction so that ordinary humans, not just $1,000 an hour prostitutes, can produce enough suction to raise fluids more than a few angstroms in height.

    A comercial product is expected within a year. Interested investors can post their email address or PayPal account number for a prompt courteous reply.

  13. Re:What does that mean in practical terms? by Luke-Jr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I already leave all progs running all the time...

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  14. Re:how do we dispose of them by ivan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do you keep particles of RAM out of your lungs now? I'd go with the same method.

  15. Re:too bad by g4dget · · Score: 3, Funny
    on the other hand you can't upgrade the memory speed beyond what your entire CPU supports

    Wow, I have to upgrade the entire CPU. Like, I get a new motherboard with 128Gbytes of nanotube memory, but I can't put bits and pieces of my old Opteron on it. Perfectly shocking. What was AMD thinking.

  16. Re:Finally... by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2, Funny
    I just want to run Emacs as fast as Mozilla. ...ducks....

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