NVRAM With Disordered Assemblies (Smaller/Cheaper)

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 10, 2003 @01:45AM from the but-the-world-must-have-order dept.

chadjg writes " Jim Tour, of Rice University says "Our research shows that ordered precision isn't a prerequisite for computing. It is possible to make memory circuits out of disordered systems." The article on www.e4engineering.com says the team has made "NanoCells", self assembled devices made from gold nanowires and organic conductive molecules. These NanoCells are the first devices of their kind to be made into working microelectronic devices, apparently." Yep. Let an untold number of machines try to create NanoCells, and statistics says you'll find the most efficient kind.

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Re:Just a thought... by Zan+Zu+from+Eridu · 2003-11-10 02:51 · Score: 4, Informative

The order is the chaotic system itself; chaotic systems are not random but deterministic, their output only appears to be random but is ordered. By wiring the circuits randomly, you do not create randomness in the system, you need (truly) random inputs to do that (and once you do it, the system will no longer fall into or periodicly orbit its attractors like the original poster describes).
Read up about chaos theory and fractal geometry, this is not unusual behaviour in complex systems.