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

    The subject says it all....

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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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.

  12. 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.

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

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