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World's Densest Memory Cells Created

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the do-what-now dept.

toybuilder writes "A Reuters new article reports the development of the world's densest memory circuit at Caltech & UCLA. The circuit has a bit storage density of 100Gb/cm^2; about 100 times the density of today's memory circuits. Interestingly, this new design places memory cells at junctions of a tic-tac-toe-like grid of wires, somewhat reminescent of core memory of the past."

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  1. Yet still not dense enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    To contain all of Slashdot's dupes.

    1. Re:Yet still not dense enough by CityZen · · Score: 1

      Maybe CowboyNeal's trying to prove he has a denser memory.

    2. Re:Yet still not dense enough by creativeHavoc · · Score: 1

      The funny thing is, today after getting home I was looking for the old one and couldn't find it. Some one made it easy on me. I almost had to use the search function.

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  2. Dupe? by Rufus211 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/ 24/2320248

    1. Re:Dupe? by thevoice99 · · Score: 1

      I wonder if /. editors read their own website. Could be useful, no?

  3. I'm confused. by FlyByPC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dense is good?

    People have been calling me dense for years. But hey, they also called me a geek, so maybe they're right.

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    1. Re:I'm confused. by iminplaya · · Score: 1

      Dense is good?

      Could be the same confusion some people suffer over the term "mensa". Or is it "mensa"?

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  4. Densest? by Gwwfps · · Score: 3, Funny

    So is it most dense or densest? Make up your mind!

    1. Re:Densest? by DaveM753 · · Score: 1

      Densest with the mostest?

  5. Re:only 2 days??? by FlyByPC · · Score: 1

    >and it's back??

    Must be /. editors have started using some of that new "dense" memory already!

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  6. Silicon Valley Companies Reach Singularity; Vanish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Maybe Ray Kurzweil and Vernor Vinge were on the money. Except, it occurs to me, if the silicon valley companies come up with a singularity, why do they have to bring the rest of humanity along? In fact, the faster they accelerate, the longer it will take to disseminate the advanced technology, until at some point it cannot disseminate fast enough. So they'll just disappear by themselves!

    Incidentally, I'm not sure this is a dupe; the first article said that HP did it and this one says that now CalTech has done it. They were working independently. It's nice to have an independent lab reproduce your results. Just ask Pons and Fleischmann.

  7. Someone beat me to it..... by Fallen+Kell · · Score: 1

    Was going to say the same thing once I saw the 160,000 bit size.

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  8. Its the same... by Fallen+Kell · · Score: 2, Informative

    All you need to know is that they both talk about the same exact 160,000 bits memory implementation to know it is the same. No two competing groups would both come up with that same strange way of expressing the memory size. Anyplace else would say 20,000 bytes, or 19.53125 KB, not 160,000 bits.

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    1. Re:Its the same... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      The article says they were working in cooperation.

    2. Re:Its the same... by evanbd · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Actually no... most memory chips are sold in bits, kbits, mbits, etc. SRAM, DRAM, Flash, anything -- individual memory chips are mostly sold in bits. This (oddly, perhaps) includes both chips that are intended to be aggregated into RAM sticks and 16 bit wide SRAM chips intended for embedded devices. I have no idea why, but I've gone shopping for discrete memory chips before and that's largely the way it is.

      Now, obviously two groups coming up with the same size and density in two days suggests a slashdot dupe, but two expressing it in bits? No, that's not at all surprising.

  9. World's densest memory cells by sokoban · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently Slashdot editors have been found to have the world's densest memory cells. You can't even get them to remember what happened yesterday. That's what I call dense.

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  10. They may dup sometimes... by bunbuntheminilop · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...but its still better than going to digg!

    I don't care. I've got karma to burn!

  11. Apparently I read /. more than CowboyNeal by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

    duuuuuuuuupe

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  12. Re:Jeez.. by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the other kind of dupe, which is what??? From Tomorrow?

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  13. Re:Jeez.. by networkBoy · · Score: 1

    My favorite is when the dupe and the first article are both on the main page. Forget what that one was for...
    -nB

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  14. Re:Oh noes: a dupe! by B3ryllium · · Score: 1

    Lone Star! We meet again, for the first time, for the last time!

  15. World's Densest Slashdot Editors Created by KNicolson · · Score: 1

    A Reuters new article reports the development of the world's densest Slashdot editors at Caltech & UCLA. The editors have a dupe storage density of 100Gb/cm^2; about 100 times the density of today's Slashdot editors. Information on how many dupes of the Library of Congress could fit into a 747-full of tubes is still awaited.

  16. Re:Jeez.. by madprof · · Score: 1

    There was a dupe one where the same story was repeated with only 2 stories between.....

  17. Jesus Christ by OverlordQ · · Score: 3, Informative

    Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick people, a good sweeping majority of the comments so far have been "OMG DUPE", "OMG SLASHDOT SUXORS", "EDITORS ARE STEWPID".

    How about next time there's a dupe, you just don't comment. Let the people who have something intelligent and informative to say post. Also, not everybody might have seen it the first time.

    Lighten Up.

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    1. Re:Jesus Christ by necrogram · · Score: 1

      Hi! you must be new here

    2. Re:Jesus Christ by Mad+Dog+Manley · · Score: 1

      Also, not everybody might have seen it the first time.

      Tough. This isn't Digg, where articles are posted to the front page multiple times (sometimes as much as a dozen times over a two week period). Slashdot hosts far less articles, but they are of generally much higher quality (than Digg).

  18. Dupe? Then do something about it. by doomy · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it's a dupe, just click on the FireHose Link, then find the article (some magic involved). After that vote against it.

    I believe this works.

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  19. Its a Doop. by sentientbeing · · Score: 1

    I saw it here last last week.

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  20. Its NOT a Dupe by mrops · · Score: 1

    They just happened to create the memory cell, twice, one yesterday, one today.

  21. Re:Jeez.. by iago-vL · · Score: 1

    Will there be a prize awarded for the first editor who posts a back-to-back dupe?

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  22. You know... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 1

    You know, there's still lots of empty space in my PC case. Memory chips that are "too big" have yet to be pushing themselves out the air vents.

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  23. Not dense enough by macraig · · Score: 1

    My next-door neighbor is much more dense than this RAM.

  24. Re:Jeez.. by madprof · · Score: 1

    That may be the next April Fool...watch this space.