Penn Eng PC Memory Nano Form That Gets Data 1,000 Times Faster

Penn University ^ | September 17, 2007 | Jordan Reese

[prophetic]

Wow, imagine a 1 Terabyte ultra-fast flash memory stick for $20 and a 2" laptop sized 10 Petabyte (1000 terabytes) Flash hard drive for $100!!

Bye Bye old spinning hard drives!

[muawiyah]

You could install such devices in the long bones of your hands. Hook up a positional reference indicator glove and you could sit there typing to yourself, and a nice popup display in your lens, and you're good to go.

This passed right by the "butt plug" idea where there'd be an intermediate step in the size of the equipment so you'd use a hollowed out Coccyx to stash the equipment.

[muawiyah]

Oh, yeah, almost forgot. Now that we’ve built one we know what to look for in our search for “Computer Chips Of The Ancients” ~ this stuff has gotta’ be laying all over the place ~ in little 100 atom units ~ Bwahahahahahahaha!

[DB]

I hope it is true.

It would be a major leap forward in electronic memory devices. Now only if they can mass produce them at low cost.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

We don't see the beings visiting us from the future because they are nanobots riding on insects.

Oh, and yes they did come to earth to eat us. It's just that they are so small it is taking them a long long time to get the job done.

I believe that flesh-eating disease may actually represent either an advancement in the aliens' method for consuming human flesh, or the rare occasion where a large number of them congregate in one place at one time for a big feast.

[Big Giant Head]

Neat article. Great technology. Freak show comments! Wow, you guys shift gears like nobody’s business.

[Teflonic]

I pray this technology is manufactured here in America rather than just given to China.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

You have nothing to fear from the nanobots.

Your head is big and giant and it will take them quite some time to consume enough of it to cause you to start voting Democrat.

[ShadowAce]

[Tribune7]

ping

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dudes.

Cheers!

[KoRn]

I’m sure something like this will eventually replace hard disk drives. It appears that this innovation certainly could do just that. Very exciting times!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

0.7mW to write a bit? That’s 700 Megawatts to store 1 terabit. The 30 amp service to my house might have some troubles delivering that much power.

[Kevmo]

Thanks for the ping, looks interesting. BMFLR.

[Lancer_N3502A]

Coming Soon...

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The title of this thread confuses me so I think I will just go to bed and forget I ever saw it.

Nighty night,
Homey

[MHGinTN]

Now can we send a ship to another star system and back?... Are we there yet?

[krb]

That’s only 700Megawatts if you store all trillion bits in parallel, and even then it would only take 700MW for 50 nanoseconds.

You would use this technology to write to data a 32, 64, 128, or even more bits at a time. 128 bits at a time would by 86mW max power draw.

[Myrddin]

Thanks for the ping. I like the longer persistence, lower power and faster access. I wonder about the ability to withstand broad temperature ranges and high vibration. Both of those environmental characteristics have forced design changes to my embedded systems on freight railcars. Tiny surface mount components on multi-layer boards with conformal coating has helped immensely by reducing mass in a high G environment. Using DSP techniques has overcome issues with temperature instability in analog filter components. The Apacer FLASH memory is doing a decent job at this point in time.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You think 700 MW over 50 ns might melt the sucker?