Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:40:48 +1000 | | From | Dancer <> | | Subject | Re: raw backing store |
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Marc Mutz wrote:
> Hi out there! > > Dancer wrote: > > > > I may be talking out of my hat here, but I remember something similar in the news > > from last year. Some university-of-queensland fellow had found some way (so the > > story goes) to pack a terabyte or so of fast static ram into a single unit about > > the size of a pcmcia card, and put an IDE interface on one end. It was supposed > > to be about 20ns or so, IIRC. And it was supposed to be cheap. The papers said he > > got hired by a memory manufacturer who wanted to (a) remain nameless and (b) > > retail the unit. > > > > Hadn't heard a thing since. > > > I don't believe a single word you cite (i.e. I believe you, when you say > you read it somewhere, I just do not believe what the u-of-q boy said). > Look at my organization in the header. We have now 64MBit chips > available, maybe there exist 1Gbit chips that run at 80 degree Kelvin > somewhere in a japanese lab. But then such a chip is well > fingernail-sized and has a capacity of 'only' 128MByte. So you need 8 > chips for one GByte of *dynamic* RAM, 8000 for one TByte. Would you be > able to fit 8000 fingernail x 0.5mm chips into a single pcmcia package > (or even in a 3 1/2 inch HD case)? Static RAM is by no means near that > degree of integration, not to speak of such new things as MRAMs > (magnetic RAMs) or or other RAMs using the XMR effects. > This is reminiscent of that guy that told everyone he had polymer near > the market a couple of years ago. He was hired by a scandinavian company > and no one has heard anything more of them (no, it was definitly *not* > Linus :-)...
Heh.
I wonder if it's slow news days do this? You hear about some fairly radical advance on local-current-affairs-news-program of choice, or in the newspaper, and zip. Nothing, ever-after.
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