HP, Princeton Develop New Memory Material

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 12, 2003 @10:11AM from the early-adopters-sought dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hewlett-Packard and Princeton researchers say they've developed a hybrid material that could be used for super-compact electronic memory, making the CD, DVD and similar media seem enormous and clunky by comparison. As reported by Science Blog, 'The researchers achieved the result by discovering a previously unrecognized property of a commonly used conductive polymer plastic coating. Their memory device combines this polymer, which is inexpensive and easy to produce, with very thin-film, silicon-based electronics.'"

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Mirror by mskfisher · 2003-11-12 10:15 · Score: 3, Informative

Site's kinda slow, here's a mirror if need be:
http://www.mskf.org/mirrors/science_blog/

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Re:Although they're calling this memory by pete-classic · 2003-11-12 10:18 · Score: 3, Informative

No, real memory holds data. This tech seems to fill that requirement.

ROM
WORM
RAM

Look 'em up.

-Peter