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New Material for Spintronics Discovered
Cpt_Corelli writes "Researchers at Uppsala University and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology have discovered a new material with properties suitable for creating spintronic devices at room temperature. Previously this was only believed to be available at very low temperatures. The material is a combination of zinc oxide and manganite. The breakthrough is the cover item of the October issue of Nature Materials. If this new material proves viable for production there is an enormous potential for smaller and faster processors. Could this be the beginning of a new era in processor development?"
Why does this sound suspiciously like some washing machine technology gone totally mad?
Does that make the people who discovered this Spin Doctors?
whacka whacka whacka
Gordon Moore heaves a sigh of relief.
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
But, the LOC is the standard unit for measuring unquantifiably huge amounts of storage since (a) no-one knows exactly how big a LOC is, so they cannot dispute your estimate, and (b) the LOC always gets larger, and thus the estimate of "I can fit N LOCs into that space", where N is an integer between 1 and 100, remains accurate despite the logrithmic nature of storage growth.
I for one have never been able to convert LOCs to bushels, and I have no intention of starting now!
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No, it means when the benefits of spintronics have been exploited research will proceed to store information in quarks and whatever lies beneath, data transfer will be instantaneous through some weird particle entanglement. And someone will say "6*10^23 bits inside a few grams of silicon will be enough for everyone", and few years later he will be laughed at.
the most sexp i get is my paren-mode.
At the moment (2:30 PM CET) Southern Sweden is without electricity due to a giant power failure. So either this discovery already starts showing its evil consequences, or the Slashdot effect now reaches further than just web sites...
-- Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
"Could this be the beginning of a new era in processor development?"
It'll have to join the queue, _behind_ optical computers and quantum computers, I'm still waiting for what they promised...
YAW.
Your head of state is a corrupt weasel, I hope you're happy.