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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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    well, it's nothing one behind the ear wouldn't cure
    1. 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.

  2. 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.