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."

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Re:Magnetic memory = Doom

[Aeiri]

So, you are writing you 10 000 line program, get half way through it today,

I don't know about you, but to me that sounds like a LOT of work for one day... 5,000 lines?

And how many bugs do you think will be in those 5,000 lines if you only worked on that in one day? 10,000? 20,000?