> 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.
D
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