Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

9 of 46 comments (clear)

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

    To contain all of Slashdot's dupes.

  2. 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.

    --
    Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
  3. Densest? by Gwwfps · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  4. 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.

    --
    We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
    1. 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.

  5. 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.

    --
    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
  6. 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!

  7. 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.

    --
    Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
  8. 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.

    --
    ...free your source and the rest would follow...