Turning Canmephian... part 3.14159619

[strredwolf]

Slashdot posted a story about Matrix Semiconductor's 3D ROM technology.

It's about as small as your fingernail.... or the blue pill in the Matrix.  And it stores 1 GigaBIT of data PERAMENTLY, using a mixed-nanometer process.  Once moved to 90nm process, 8 GigaBIT in a reasonable size... almost like data crystals.

And that's in ROM.  Read Only Memory.  I can't wait until they get it as Flash/Rewritable or even volitile RAM.

Comments

[vedasisme.livejournal.com]

how's a gigabit relate to a gigabyte?

[griffinwolf.livejournal.com]

Divide by 8.

8 bits to a byte. A byte is a unit that defines a character. A bit is a 1 or a 0.

In the case of bare-bones hardware, you're not concerned with how much meaningful characters you can hold, but just how many 1's and 0's you can store, hence why they refer to it in *bits.

[vedasisme.livejournal.com]

ah, that clears it up, thanks. :)

[griffinwolf.livejournal.com]

WOO I can't wait for it to go EEPROM, neither :)

[gentle-wolfox.livejournal.com]

A nifty "3-D" memory RAM array is possible...

It's on some fellow's workbench as I speak in one of the labs where I work. Whether or not it makes it out of the lab into production has ben yet to be realized. It would make for ultra-high density memory that only requires power when you poke an electron into place or make a read operation. Once in place, it's given a "spin" to represent one of three states of logic. No electron = 0. Electron with clockwise spin = 1, electron with counter-clockwise spin = 2. Fuzzy logic and instant-on, last state computers anyone? Not to mention ultra low power requirements compared to your average PC that requires 22 watts of power alone to run a pair of SD-RAM/DDR memory. (It's not required to be refreshed until there is a read/write operation in a given location) Good stuff there!