Nano-Scale Memory Fits A Terabit On A Square Inch

prostoalex writes "San Jose Business Journal talks about Nanochip, a company that's developing molecular-scale memory: "Nanochip has developed prototype arrays of atomic-force probes, tiny instruments used to read and write information at the molecular level. These arrays can record up to one trillion bits of data -- known as a terabit -- in a single square inch. That's the storage density that magnetic hard disk drive makers hope to achieve by 2010. It's roughly equivalent to putting the contents of 25 DVDs on a chip the size of a postage stamp." The story also mentions Millipede project from IBM, where scientists are trying to build nano-scale memory that relies on micromechanical components."

Comments

How long.

[lifejunkie]

How long before it's non-volatile?

Not so

[A nonymous Coward]

First usage was 1000 == grand, as in that sap lost 25Gs on a horse, or the kidnap ransom was 100Gs, etc. G for 1000, M for 1,000,000, and B for 1,000,000,000 were in common use for budgets and gross national products long before some smartass computer guys decided that 2^10 was so close (1024) to 1000 that it was good enough to coopt the idea, which might have been ok until they compounded the error by re-using M, then went on to G.

I applaud the Gi etc standard. It behooves the computer people, who came second, to use their own abbreviations, or as you would say, their own fucking abbreviations. Since they didn't have the fucking common sense to steer clear of the already-used fucking M, I say fuck 'em and make 'em use somebody else's abbreviations, since they have proven themselves incapable of responsibly picking their own.