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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.
April is not for ages yet.
Maybe Duke Nukem Forever will run on it.
The first time I heard about holographic memory replacing conventional methods (RAM/ROM/HDD), I was a kid just beginning work at NCR...let's see what the way-back machine says: 1991.
I've been waiting for 14 years for the technology to become real, and like nuclear fusion, I suspect I'll be waiting forever...
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If you're not convinced, just check out the video http://www.compu-technics.com/images/solar memory.WMV.
Only an idiot would think that was fake. ARE YOU AN IDIOT??!?
And it only requires 1.2 Jiggawatts of electricity for the flux capacitor!
With all those powerhouse specs and without decent video, how am I supposed to play WoW on that?
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
...was everyone's bullshit detectors exploding in glorious unison. The earlier thread on OSNews has thoroughly debunked this device as a hoax. All you need to know is that 32-bit Windows XP only supports 16 gigs of RAM and this claims to have 1 terabyte of RAM.
And this, gentlemen, is why I don't pay for a subscription to Slashdot.
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Cuz, it looks like people are getting fooled.
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Will this finally allow me to run multiple programs on Windows XP? With that much ram it should be able to handle the ram-hungry Windows XP.
Of course, maybe by "TB" they don't mean tera-byte, but instead 'tiny-byte', a brand new term meaning really, really freaking small.
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The first time I read the specs here, I thought "Wow - Infineon are finally getting their new console specced up."
Then I realised it had nothing to do with them.
Strange how I confused a vapourware console with this.
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:
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.
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The general consensus at OSNews is that this is a fraud and a complete lie.
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11784
Some people have pointed out some interesting discrepancies in the images and so forth.
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I can't be bothered with this.
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Tagline from the website... "Welcome to the world of nanomicrons and beyond!" All credibility went out the window right there. Seriously, how much pot do you have to smoke to come up with stuff like this. My grandma can photoshop better than the morons at "Atom Chip Corporation." If anyone gives these people money, they deserve what they're getting - absolutely nothing.
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6.8 GHz, 1 TB RAM, 2TBHDD? Right. And Slashdot's only going to post this article once.
Their "dylithium crystal" based transceiver, at least the one on the left, looks really familiar...
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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.
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This image alone... http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/256Mx6M.jpg (from http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html )
It's the "NvIOpRAM 24GB [3-pin]", also known as the 1/4" to 1/8" gold-plated headphone adapter available at RadioShacks everywhere.
The Register has a link to the company's press release with a few pictures. The so-called "Quantum II" processor shown in the "processor compartment" bears a striking resemblance to a mobile Pentium III chip with a heat pipe and fan assembly arranged almost identically to those in Dell laptops. The various
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DNF is finished, but it's been rebundled as an exclusive release for Infineon's Phantom game console. They're waiting for the hardware to ship to customers... ;)
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I find it very misleading to state that the speed of a quad system (4 1.7 Ghz processors) is the speed of each processor multiplied by the number (4 * 1.7 = 6.8).
After reading that portion of the specification, I find it difficult to read the rest of it without laughing openly.
Nice try.
Let me play: I have a 1.4 Ghz Thinkpad, a 2.8 Ghz HP Presario laptop, and a 500 Mhz iBook. Using the logic from the specifications at that site, those three laptops mean that I have a single 4.7 Ghz laptop? If so, please tell me how I can get Tiger to run at that speed on that 500 Mhz iBook!
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http://cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhibitor _details.asp?exhibid=7059&
I would love to be there to see a demo... While being at CES doesn't mean its ready for the world it does mean this is more then just a prank.
Its a real company, with possibly real products although they could just be fishing for stupid investors also, Wish I could be there to find out
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The screenshots show Windows reporting hard drive space and RAM measured in TB.. unfortunately it's Windows XP 32-bit which can't handle more than 4GB of RAM. Clearly a hoax...
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...that with every order will come with two strippers to entertain you while you set the machine up. I mean, c'mon, Taco, if you're gonna give us a nerd hard-on, at least include something naughty, too.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Who allowed this bullshit to go through ? First, no company that respect itself would show a web page like this one. Ok, their device (6.8ghz) to read their memory might be legit, but which intel board with the 855 support four pentium M, again ?
.. Anyone know what that would do to this small 2GB flash dri.., err, 2TB ram :)
And their 2GB device, I mean, 2TB device, that use 5V and 2.5 --> MICRO -- amps to WRITE 6GB per second ? It would take much more just to have the circuit resistance beaten =)
They also claim 2000g operating shock
Here's a link to the OSNews discussion itself:
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11784
Read the debunking for yourself.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page5.html
Who wants to doctor a photo at 1280X1024?
Look at the pisspoor job he did on the Memory counter. I know the old chestnut of "a bad photoshop" can be applied here because all you have to do is look at the CPU/Memory count and you can see the freakin' grey box around it.
But, hey, maybe my eyes are going.
Any laptop that has built in Bluetoth can't be all bad.
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:
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Domain Registrar
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Phone: 1-902-7492701
Email: domain-registrar@register.com
DNS Servers:
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Seeing that the the other specs are buzzwords really, I doubt it has 1TB of ram. It's probably some trade marked word they made up. For example, it says 6.8 ghz atomchip processor. But then you find out this is there word for 4x1.7ghz pentium ms. They use the word "or" to mean "in other words" here. Of course must of us know this really isn't equivilent to having one 6.8 ghz chip, though it should be fast. Also, it appears that there is no quantum technology in the ram. That's just a trademarked term for there implementation of flash memory.
I own one of these beauties. It's parked next to my Phantom game console. I even have Duke Nukem Forever running between them on my 25 TB/s wireless network.
It can - I have a number of 32-bit Windows machines with 8Gb RAM.
I guess today is a passable day to die.
He must be a genius if he is not standing on the sholders of giants.
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Just curious - how do you figure out the memory addressing with 32-bit pointers?
It has to exist first!
Y'know, I've seen Linux run on a washing machine. I've even seen Linux run on a toaster, but I ain't never seen Linux run on no phantom Atomchip laptop.
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Oh, I wouldn't say that. I see Windows running on it and the one thing I have learned over the years is that Windows can suck the power out of anything.
For every advance in processor, disk and memory technology, a new release of Windows follows which ties more of it up. Heck when this thing starts up Windows probably fills up half the available memory (like it does on my 1.25GB desktop system) with DLLs and whatnot, whatever it can't find on the system disk it'll probably create just to meet expectations.
I shudder to think what Longhorn will demand of systems for minimum hardware.
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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.
Not true according to this quote:
"The new AtomChip® Quantum® II processor with 256MB on-board memory has a high speed with very low consumption of electrical energy."
It uses very little elecrical energy. What I have to figure out though is what other type of energy it uses. I'm suspecting bullshit or some other type biological energy source.
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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).
:-)
Well obviously they have a Quantum multi-core design, with eight cores each running XP Pro you get a TB of memory supported and the dialogue just adds it all up!
The whole comma/decimal point inconsitancy is a byproduct of the quantum design, which locks in actual characters used in a dialogue only when a user views the screen.
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And it runs Longhorn!
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"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.
They just forgot to mention the stats were for 1,000 units :)
If you trouble yourself to view other posts you will not dozens of idiot geek wanna-bees shocked that slashdot editors did not spot the technical errors of this article. I imagine they are outraged by the obvious political bias of The Onion and Madd Magazine?
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On one of the company pics, I saw one person siting on a garden plastic chair. Also, the facilities don't impress me much, 4 scientist in a small bathroom looking at some stuff. http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/8GBAdapters.JPG These pics look funny to me, I could do the same hoax at home with some sort of glue and electronics component I have in here. The most funny part of it is the 2T memory allocation of Windows XP, and why XP OS by the way? Common Slashdot!!! you could do better!
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.
11*43+456^2
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.
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.
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That's a pretty good guess. The PAE (Physical Address Extentions) option on all of Intel's recent 32-bit processors allows up to 64 GB of RAM (certainly not 1 TB!) (which is 36, not 40 bits, that's probably for the EM64T).
Switching to this mode requires that you use a 4 MB page size instead of a 4 KB page... but these days that's not as crazy as it was when we had 32 MB of memory.
If you're more interested in PAE and other higher memory addressing modes, all of this information is available in the IA-32 manual available in PDF form from Intel's web site.
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.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Do *NOT* observe the quantum chips. That totally ruins them.
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