[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

No slowdown in the advance of computing technology!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Failed to get the date in the proper box.

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[IronJack]

Looks like a big boost for digital camera aficionados. Storage has been a big problem in that area. If IBM can make this technology affordable, it might be a good time to unload any wet film stock you have ...

[kimosabe31]

bump

[maui_hawaii]

breakthroughs like these end up with smaller, lighter, faster, and more energy efficient tools.

The savings on energy use alone is worth it.

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[LibKill]

Nice!

Hope it is available soon.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Oh, can't wait for this....

Sorry sir, you need to defrag your system - click start, programs, accessories, system tools, disk defragmenter, and call us back in a year.

[Mariner]

This could be VERY big business in the datacenter.

Todays servers are often limited in speed once they have to retrieve data from disk. However, if you load ALL data and programs into memory........things get very very fast......well, assuming you use an OS that can handle that much memory.

It probably wouldn't help an XP or W2K server much:)

[petuniasevan]

closeup diagram of a "millipede" chip

[VOA]

No slowdown in the advance of computing technology!

Agreed...but when it deliver the brave new world in which school kids don't
have to wear a backpack and haul 30 pounds of books around campus?
(Well, maybe that's not such a bad thing...it's the most exercise some students get...)

[Vince Ferrer]

The Millipede chip uses silicon micromachining techniques to precisely move a silicon substrate coated with a thin-film polymer beneath an array of 1,024 parallel activated 20-nanometer read/write heads, which were also etched from silicon.

I was just thinking about this at lunch.

[Post Toasties]

Wonder how many melt/remelt cycles per memory location the millipede is good for.

[Redcloak]

[A] "thousandfold increase in data-storage density," which would lead to petabit-sized devices.

Wow! Do you realize how many moose and cheese threads could be stored in just a single petabit?!? This will revolutionize FreeRepublic!

[Bogey78O]

But we'd never get it accomplished if we didn't oppress the third world. /sarcasm