Turning Canmephian... part 3.14159619
May. 10th, 2005 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
strredwolfSlashdot 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.
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.
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Date: 2005-05-11 02:24 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2005-05-11 02:25 am (UTC)