6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop?

Stuk writes "Research & development company AtomChip have announced a new 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD laptop, which is "coming soon". Apparently it does not use a hard disc, instead it is based on "solid state AtomChip® optoelectronics". A new "non-volatile Quantum-Optical" type of RAM is used. Other features include voice commands, "Num Lock mode, Caps Lock mode, Scroll Lock mode". They're spoiling us." If Nintendogs has taught me anything, it's that voice recognition is awesome and should be used for everything. *cough*. And also to be skeptical of this many buzzwords.

Comments

Is it April First already?

[TripMaster Monkey]

How the hell did this get posted?

When I read the summary, I looked for the 'It's funny. Laugh' foot icon to the right, but my search was in vain...apparently, we're supposed to take this seriously.

In the article, there is a screenshot of a supposed 'System Properties' dialog box showing the following:

AtomChip(R) Quantum(R)
processor 6,80 Ghz, 1.00 TB of RAM

Never mind the indecision between using commas (6,80 Ghz) and decimal points (1.00 TB), but according to Microsoft, the most physical memory a Windows XP Professional system can support is 4 GB (or 128 GB for 64-bit edition).

In short, I call shennigans.

Re:Is it April First already?

[RobbieGee]

Hm, I checked my system properties and what's listed is:

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
2800+
1.81 Ghz, 1,00 GB RAM

Same indecision, albeit at opposite sides. I'd let this single one slide because of this, although I don't believe the story as a whole.

Re:Vaporware?

[suso]

Reminds me of another story on slashdot a long time ago

Re:Funny

[TripMaster Monkey]

Can windows xp even recognize 1TB ram?

Hell no, it can't. The limit for 32-bit is 4 GB, and the limit for 64-bit is 128 GB.

In short, it can't even come close to recognizing that amount of physical memory. The article is complete and utter bullshit. Slashdot is dumber for having posted it as 'news', and we are all dumber for having read it.

Re:Does time travel as well

[m4dm4n]

Ahh but in the timewarp that spawned this article, its already April... 2021

Re:Power

[davandhol]

1.21 gigawatts. Try again.

OSNews discussion link.

[CyricZ]

Here's a link to the OSNews discussion itself:

http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11784

Read the debunking for yourself.

Re:The sound you just heard...

[A beautiful mind]

Taco should read the description of this page. It's supposed to be news for nerds, not for idiots.

This place is going downhill, so i think i'll just join the others migrating to some other nerd site.

Who knows, maybe i'll donate this account to GNAA. They at least have some editorial quality, journalistic integrity and some entertaining value.

It DOES run Linux !!!

[burts]

If you read the Specification section it is mentioned that this beast does run Linux.

Domain Registration

[SirCyn]

Yeah, this looks like a corporate website. The admin contact is an @MSN.com address?! Check out the WHOIS info:

      Registrant:
            Shimon Gendlin
            Shimon Gendlin
            21 Reed Lane
            Westbury, NY 11590
            US
            Email: atomchip@optonline.net

      Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
      Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
      Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

      Domain Name: atomchip.com

            Created on..............: Sun, Aug 25, 2002
            Expires on..............: Fri, Aug 25, 2006
            Record last updated on..: Fri, Jul 29, 2005

      Administrative Contact:
            WIPOI
            Shimon Gendlin
            21 Reed Lane
            Westbury, NY 11590
            US
            Phone: 516-368-4800
            Email: shimon_gendlin@msn.com

      Technical Contact:
            Register.Com
            Domain Registrar
            575 8th Avenue 11th Floor
            New York, NY 10018
            US
            Phone: 1-902-7492701
            Email: domain-registrar@register.com

      DNS Servers:

      dns1.register.com
      dns2.register.com

Re:Yeah right

[WillerZ]

It can - I have a number of 32-bit Windows machines with 8Gb RAM.

Re:The sound you just heard...

[mpsmps]

While certainly a hoax, it's an unusually thorough one. Check out their appearance as a CES Innovations 2005 Awards Honoree.

Re:Yeah right

[arkanes]

Some versions of 32 bit Windows support PAE, which is an Intel extension for addressing more 4GB of RAM. You're still restricted to 4GB of virtual memory per process, though.

Re:OBVIOUSLY LEGIT

[TobiasSodergren]

Here's what they will display at 2006 International CES: exhibitor details.

The link also contains some contact info.

a 56k modem? i'm sold

[squison]

"Communication: 10/100 Base-T LAN on board, MDC Fax/Modem V.90/V.92 on Board"

Screw the 1TB of RAM.. It's got a V.90/V.92 modem that FAXES TOO! ON BOARD! Wow, what will they think of next?

Not to mention the air shower, gatta get me one of those.

Re:The sound you just heard...

[ptlis]

http://technocrat.net/

Re:Very Funny

[photon317]

Yeah, but an actual 64-bit processor is not capable using 16 exabytes of memory. AFAIK, both x86-64 platforms (amd opteron/athlon64 and intel's ripoffs) are limited in silicon to addressing 1TB of physical RAM. Operating system support can of course push this number lower. The kernel shipping with SuSE Enterprise Linux on an Opteron can address up to 512GB.

Re:Very Funny

[bhtooefr]

First... XP64 can only address 128GB RAM, because it's not using 64-bit addressing. It's using 36-bit, which is what the EM64T chips use.

Now, the AMD64 chips can *AT MINIMUM* address 1TB, b/c they use 40 and 48-bit addressing.

Re:Yeah right

[saider]

This is just a guess, but they probably just ressurected the segment:offset method. This is what allowed the 8086 to access more than 64k of memory.

Some current DRAM controllers have a 40-bit address, so Windows could do the shift and add ((segment << 8) + offset) of two 32-bit registers to get the 40-bit address.

Again, just a guess, but this has been done before.

Re:OBVIOUSLY LEGIT

[xtracto]

Darn... somehow slashdot managed to cut my comment..
Yeah, interesting link.. note that ONLY the 1TB memory chip has a cost of USD $6000. From the product specification:

<i>
        Specifications [200-pin SODIMM]: 1) DC Input Voltage : 1.4V &#177;5% ; 2) Standby : <0.25&#181;A; 3) Read : 1.0 &#181;A ; 4) Write: 1.5 &#181;A ; 5) Reading time : 0.3 ns ; 6) Update time : 0.5 ns ; 7) Temperature Operating : -50+125 C ; 8) Humidity Operating : 5 - 95% ; 9) Shack Operating [max] : 2,000G . The expected seling price.is $6000 .
</i>

The 2 TB disk will cost $5000

<i>
Specifications [2 x 1TB (ATA IDE)] : 1) DC Input Voltage: 5.0V &#177;10% ; 2) Standby : <0.5&#181;A ; 3) Read : 1.5 &#181;A ; 4) Write: 2.5 &#181;A ; 5) Reading time : 60 ns ; 6) Update time : 120 ns ; 7) Temperature Operating : -50+125 C ; 8) Humidity Operating : 5 - 95% ; 9) Shock Operating [max] : 2,000G . The expected seling price.is $5000 .</i>

Unfortunately the notebook specification does not contain the price.. which I think would end being something like USD $15000
    haha

Re:Yeah right

[cbreaker]

I actually thought you had to enable PAE if you wanted to use more then 3GB RAM because of some sort of addressing issues.

We have a couple VMWare servers here with Xeons on Windows 2003 that have 32GB of memory, and they run fine. Currently, VMWare on 32-bit windows only supports 3700MB RAM per VM, though.

PAE does slow things down quite a bit though, so it'll be one of the huge advantages to going x86-64 in the near future.

Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!)

[Anonymous Coward]

Here are more links from his patents

Non-volatile record carrier with magnetic quantum-optical reading effect
Thin film composite having ferromagnetic and piezoelectric properties comprising a layer of Pb-Cd-Fe and a layer of Cr-Zn-(Te or Tl)
Non-volatile memory device having ferromagnetic and piezoelectric properties
Method of manufacturing a non-volatile random accessible memory device
Memory material and method for its manufacture
Memory material and method of its manufacture -2
Memory material and method for its manufacture

This guy is spending MAD money on patents, Lot's of money for his C.E.S. Booth etc, wtf ?!

Re:The sound you just heard...

[gliph]

http://www.digg.com/

I've been surfing over that way quite a bit lately, most /. stuff ends up over there or starts there.. there are usually a lot more articles, although some of it isn't very interesting... its a nice place to find some of the less mainstream stuff that won't make it on /. these days....

Re:Fake, obviously

[tantrum]

another nice image is this:
http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/RAMComp2.jpg

Looks like they're using a memory controller from 1999 to control 1 tb of ram.. wonder how the access time will be.

Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!)

[Valegor]

If anyone is there please point out that XP will not recognize over 4 gigs of RAM.

Re:Did no one else notice

[p4ul13]

I think what the GP was saying was that while:
4 x 1.7 = 6.8
is true,
4 x 1.7GHz != 6.8GHz

In other words a system with four processors running at 1.7GHz aren't going to deliver 6.8GHz of processing ability.

Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!)

[iamhassi]

"Methinks this may be a wee bit of vaporware. I'll believe it when I see it."

You know, the only thing that's really absurd is the memory. 1TB RAM? Exactly how many ram DIMMS would that be?

The 6.8ghz is plausible, never been done in a laptop but some guy did manage 7ghz.

And 2TB hard drive isn't too far off, not in laptop drives but he could have four 500gB SATA-II desktop drives in there.

So, as crazy as this sounds only his ram specs make it obviously vaporware. Had he said 2 or 4gB it'd actually be almost possible, or at least more believable.

Oh, and the 256mB cache? Give me a break. Makes me wonder if this guy really knows anything about computers, obviously a 6.8ghz wouldn't have a 256mB cache. Anything over 2mB is silly on a desktop.

Wonder if that 256mB is full speed, he doesnt say. Is it L1 or L2?

Common mistake

[Anonymous Coward]

Your confusion is easy to understand: it was actually Walt Whitman who was a money laundering front for the Russian Mafia.

Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!)

[bjohnson]

and if you do a wee tiniest bit of Googling, you'll find that this guy has been peddling this vapor since at least 1997:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is _n2191_v43/ai_19951759

Re:Does time travel as well

[tod_miller]

Shit, I had better wake up all my customers...

We run Java on desktop apps for banks and retail outlets on close to 100,000 desktops.

Anything from signature retrieval, and complex comfortable drag and drop, fluid document management suites in Java, to advanced sales systems.

The only real issue with Java on desktop was installation, and webstart kinda kicked that one in the nut.

If you webstart something, it is so nice to install it.

google square heads demo, click web start, then some back and apologise.

yip.