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:Does time travel as well

[m4dm4n]

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

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.

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.

Re:The sound you just heard...

[ptlis]

http://technocrat.net/

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: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: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.