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Matrix 3D memory is World's Smallest
nokiator writes "Most of the headlines about cool new high density memory technology are from DRAM or Flash manufacturers these days. Matrix Semiconductor, a small Silicon Valley start-up, broke the trend today and announced that the world's smallest 1-Gbit memory chip. Matrix's chip is an antifuse-based one-time programmable ROM. The total die area of the 1Gb chip is 31 square millimeters (smaller than the blue/red pills in the Matrix movie). Matrix claims that they can achieve this density through a proprietary 3D circuit technology that combines 150nm and 130nm process geometries. When Matrix moves to 90nm process technology, it should be possible to manufacture a 8Gb memory chip on a reasonable sized (i.e. cheap) die. There are many potential applications of this kind of low cost, very high density ROM technology, mostly in content distribution area. One 8Gb ROM chip would have sufficient storage capacity to store the contents of an entire movie using H.264 encoding."
I can ramdisk the internet. I just need a warehouse!
The total die area of the 1Gb chip is 31 square millimeters (smaller than the blue/red pills in the Matrix movie).
Just what I always wanted - another unit of measurement. How many millifootballfields is one blue pill? What can this chip hold in terms of LibrariesOfCongress-per-BluePill?
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Read only. Cache.
There's something inherently amusing about seeing this:
Allow me to be the first to say... (Score:0, Redundant)
Regardless of what the article may say about its speed, it is actually slower than everything because it will often make your computer do the "Matrix Effect".(You know when the people go real slow to avoid bullets)
Fallout 3 will suck.
GUEST: Do you mind if I have some more m&m's?
HOST: What m&m's? I don't have any m&m's.
GUEST: In the bowl... on top of the tv...?
HOST: Aaaaaaargh! That's my movie collection, nimrod!
And here, I thought that I had the -- wait, what whas I talking about?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Guess I'll have to buy the White Album again
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