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Making Computer Memory From a Virus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-the-speed-of-sick dept.

An Ac writes, "By coating 30-nanometre-long chunks of tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nanoparticles, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have created a transistor with very fast switching speed. They say it could eventually be used to make memory chips for MP3 players and digital cameras. A device fitted with such a virus-chip would access data much more quickly than one using flash memory."

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  1. Re:until you catch the virus by Almost-Retired · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I doubt that very much. A transistor with 100 microseconds switching speed is at least an order of magnitude slower than the original ck722 transistor from the early 1950's.

    Doesn't anybody ever actually read these links? Oh wait, this is /.

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