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Nanotube Non-Volatile Memory Entering Production
hovermike writes "Nantero and LSI Logic are expected to announce that nanotube non-volatile memory will be going into production, at least as far as the NY Times is concerned. Nanotubes have been discussed previously, Nanotube Applications..., and Buckminsterfullerene..., but I'm certainly surprised something like this has moved into production this quickly. Could this be the ultimate 'bubble' memory?" Reader hovermike writes "The press release can be found at the Nantero website. I'm looking forward to only needing one memory card to store all the 5Mbit pictures that I'll take for the rest of my life."
Great stuff. But, is it reliable? This technology is becoming mainstream too quickly.
Does anyone have more data on this?
I was doing expirements of buckminsterfullerenes back in 1996-97, it shouldn't be suprising that a superior material made it to market in 8-10 years after the start of expiremental evaluation. I doubt it took that long to develop nylon, rayon, or any of the other wonder fibers into products for sale.
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STM recently announced that they are entering the production phase for PRAM, or phase-change memory. This is important because PRAM is nonvolatile and has the potential to be written and read much faster than flash. There will come a day when DRAM will go away and we'll be left with extremely fast and simple NVRAM for main memory and possibly even archival storage. It'd be really great if there was only ONE memory in a system. At this point, most high-performance CPUs are mostly cache memory anyway.
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Sounds like it would be lower power than flash memory- and if they can get the manufacturing process cheaper, this could mean finally having say a 40 GB memory card on my PDA- copy my entire desktop to the PDA for mobile applications.
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The articles seemed weak on details, does anyone know what sizes of memory these will be available in? Are we talking megs of memory (like current flash cards), gigs of memory (to replace hard drives), or teras of memory (for the future)?
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Last I heard certain nanotubes were toxic to the environment. Does anyone know whether these suffer from the same issue?
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Hardware vendors use this technolog to bring us a truely "instant on" feature to our laptops and PCs ?
And just how exactly is that supposed to happen with a chip encased in plastic? Are you going to put your memory chips in a blender? I guarantee you- if you powder any silicon chip to a size where it could become airborne and inhaled, you're likely to cause siliconitis at the very least (this used to happen to coal miners all the time, horrible disease that can take 60-80 years to do enough damage to your lungs to kill you).
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Nantero isn't publicly held, though, so this isn't a stock hype.
only needing one ... more people thought like this, about lots of things.
... and you'll still be needing piles and piles of 'media' around, for those moments.
... and so will the markets.
but alas, what will more likely happen is 'consumericans' and other dis-world orders will 'drive the demand' up for super hi-res video, and we'll all be having HDTV Home Video dumps to sony-marketed 'nano-bricks'
things will just get 'prettier' and 'waaay bigger', the functions will stay the same
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So while not a pure play on a single stock, it can still suffer from some of the volatility generated in the market environment.
Because the "new, new economy" business model is to make it difficult for customers to use your product, and then sue the pants off anyone that tries to help them.
Accordingly, I expect Slashdot to receive a subpoena shortly to determine who the above poster is -- Because he has now violated the DMCA by "bypassing an encyption technology" !
Yippee! A new revenue stream for Nantero !!!
Because they don't like handicapped people, especially the blind.. I recently attended a seminar on web access for the disabled, and it was an eye opener. There is no good tools (screenreaders) to read PDF's, and adobe has had their project on the back burner for the last few years.. I have now dropped most of the PDF use at our company.
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Well, I remember reading in those sci-fi novels about people fixated on recording everything that happened to them...video 24 hrs/day. And then the loopiness that happens when you record yourself watching old recordings of yourself watching old recordings of ... you get the idea.
That would be a good use for really cheap, dense, portable low-power memory. (And no, I didn't RTFA yet.)
How about current computer components? There's plenty of toxic stuff already in your computer -- the trick, as it has always been, will be: don't leave it in the environment, don't snort it, don't eat it.
If you can handle that with current computers, you're probably good to go for nanotubular memory.
Gotta love the moderators:
Moderation +5
70% Informative
20% Redundant
10% Insightful
It's a first post! (And yes, I'm kinda proud of that, for some twisted reason.) How can a first post be "Redundant"? And it looks like at least two moderators thought so. Strange... wish I got a moderation report for anonymous posts so I could count the votes.
Here's another one: how can a repost of a company press release be "Insightful"? But I'll grant the mods a pass for that simple mistake... and if someone will finally give me mod points, I might even quit whining!
As of 2 years ago, some of the world's best researchers on this field gave talks, which I attended, indicating that nanotubes remain fiendishly difficult to manipulate. Nothing I have read since then indicates otherwise.
Progress is being made such as at IBM, hence the commercial interest, but it's not particularly close to being ready for prime time. Basically nobody knows hot to get nanotubes in the right place other than by "hand" with an AFM and nothing less will get you a transistor for memory.