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Computer Memory Can Be Read With a Flash of Light
ananyo writes "A new kind of computer memory can be read 10,000 times faster than flash memory using pulses of light, taking advantage of principles used in solar panel design. Researchers built the prototype device using bismuth ferrite. In conventional computer memory, information is stored in cells that hold different amounts of electric charge, each representing a binary '1' or '0.' Bismuth ferrite, by contrast, and can represent those binary digits, or bits, as one of two polarization states, and, because of its photovoltaic properties, can switch between these states in response to visible light."
Is reading my computer memory with their flashlights.
There's no bismuth like show bismuth
From the article: "10 micrometres wide"
So move on. There's nothing to be seen here.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Do we really want bipolar memory with its constant cycling between manic and depressive states?
>Hey, lets use light flashes and solar tech to store memory!
Nah, we can't do that, the name Flash is already taken for memory; try another idea.
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You are messing the discussion with facts. Someone call the guards!
In any case : don't call it Flash Memory... that would be dumb...