[cdg] Computer News - Nanotube chip could hold 10 gigabits
- From: "Donny Duncan" <ravers_deelite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:25:03 -0500
Pulled from NewScientist (www.newscientist.com)
Nanotube chip could hold 10 gigabits
A computer memory chip based on carbon nanotubes has passed a manufacturing
milestone, according to the US company developing the technology.
The prototype chip would store information using hundreds of billions of
nanotubes with a theoretical capacity of 10 gigabits of data, says Nantero,
based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Once fully developed, the company says nanoscale random access memory (NRAM)
could hold more data that existing types of RAM and would also be non-volatile,
meaning data would not be lost when the power is been turned off. Computers
using such memory could boot up almost instantly. Nantero also claims that NRAM
would be much faster than current non-volatile memory, such as Flash.
Nantero is not the only company hoping to use carbon nanotubes to make improved
types of computer memory. But the company believes its advantage lies in the
fact that its chips can be made using existing silicon manufacturing methods
and would therefore be relatively cheap to make.
Read more:
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=99993838&sub=Nanotechnology
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