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The Arrival of Very Small Memory
Roland Piquepaille writes "After the ages of DRAM and SRAM memories, is this time for nanotech memories? ExtremeTech says that "molecular memories" as well as memories based on carbon nanotubes are emerging. With these nanotech memories, several startup companies are envisioning future chips mixing logic, memory and reconfigurable computing elements. One of these promising startups is ZettaCore, which has built a prototype of a molecular memory designed to replace both SRAM and DRAM kinds of memories. These molecules, which are about 1 nanometer in size, are also self-assembling, meaning that they can be manufactured with existing equipment used in the semiconductor industry. This overview contains more details about the technology and includes a diagram of these molecules in a memory array."
Sorry, what were you talking about?
it seems well and good, but i for one won't be convinced until i see them in the palm of my hand.
under my electron microscope....
and if you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn...
My memory is small enough, thank you.
Now... what was I doing?
Does this mean I'm gonna start getting spam about how HU6E my memory is? I'm starting to get memory envy.
"I wish to God these calculations would have been made by steam." -Charles Babbage
Hm, doesn't sound as good, does it?
Sheesh, what the hell would you do with 18Tb of RAM in a desktop computer?
"18Tb of RAM should be enough for everyone!"
No one will ever need less than 640mm of memory
I shall go and tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.
yep, yep.. Reminds me of when the MacII first came out. Based on the 68020, it would be, in theory, capable of addressing 2GB of ram. (one bit was used to switch between RAM and I/O space) I did some napkin math and figured that you could camoflage a 2GB memory unit as a desk. The memory would fit in the lid of the desk, with one pillar being a cooling unit, and the other a 16Kilowatt power supply).
I figured we could even revert back to a form of bank switched memory (if you would allow the pun) ... with banks of memory being switched off if you weren't using them. This would be a good bit worse, but roughly the same idea.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
Even non-realtime AI is currently more stupid then my 3 month old daugther
What did you just call your daughter?
Do I detect the foul stench of RDRAM's corpse rising from its grave? (A serial memory bus would certainly help address the pin-count issue.)
I can just see the future (assuming Rambus waits for "Talk Like a Pirate Day" to pounce):
Rambus: Avast, ye scurvy memory-lovers, and prepare to hand over all yer sparkling treasure. We be the Pirates of Rambus IP, and we're here to double yer prices, scuttle yer standards committees, and rape yer sheep.
Flunky: (...whisper whisper whisper...)
Rambus: Errrr...rape yer RAM.
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
And one final point: even Drexler's assemblers are only machines. THEY ARE NOT ALIVE!!!! Damn it! They will not eat your brain any more than your feature-filled VCR will.
We'd have a much more intelligent populace if it wasn't for the brain-eating features on modern TVs and VCRs . . .