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Carbon Nanotube Memory on the Way

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the prepare-yourselves dept.

Cyberherbalist writes "Nantero, a nanotechnology company, is expecting prototypes of products using NRAM technology (nanotube-based, non-volatile random access memory) to be available in 2006. In the article at nature.com, it says that 'the company has succeeded in making circular wafers, 13 centimetres in diameter, that hold 10 gigabits of data.' And they are ten times faster than 'flash' memory."

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  1. Re:Wafer? by robj · · Score: 5, Interesting
    And as far as downtime reduction goes, NRAM would be no good unless the server has time to suspend-to-RAM...


    Well, unless the server was written using memory transactions, which are starting to look like a good idea for other reasons also. If you had a transactional layer on top of your NVRAM, then you could structure things to allow crash recovery as well; then you could recover from any crash at any time.