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Inventor of GMR Bids To Shake Up Storage, Again

Posted by kdawson on from the dark-horse-in-search-of-a-racetrack dept.

Nrbelex writes "Stuart S. P. Parkin, an I.B.M. research fellow largely unknown outside a small fraternity of physicists, thinks he is poised to bring about a breakthrough that could increase the amount of data stored on a chip or a hard drive by a factor of a hundred. This is the man who pioneered exploiting the giant magnetoresistance effect in the 90s, causing disk storage to jump ahead of the Moore's Law curve. If he proves successful in developing 'racetrack memory,' he will create a universal computer memory, one that can potentially replace DRAM and flash memory chips, and make a 'disk drive on a chip' possible. It could begin to replace flash memory in three to five years, scientists say."

5 of 220 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Finally... by XenoPhage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Enough space for all the porn in the internet... at least for now. I disagree.. I don't think the Internet has enough space for porn, it seems to keep spilling over into my browser...
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  2. Awesome! by illegibledotorg · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it means my computer gets to look like that thing from TFA, then I'm SO in!

  3. Library conversion by Per+Wigren · · Score: 5, Funny

    allow every consumer to carry data equivalent to a college library on small portable devices Now, I'm confused. How many College Libraries are there in a Library of Congress?
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  4. Re:Anybody bought a hard drive in the last 10 year by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    All peoples claims should be approached with a skeptic eye.

    Yeah, right.

  5. Fermat Jr.'s Last Theorem by sehlat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this 50TB hard drive is too small to contain.