Wednesday, December 13, 2006
IBM Shows Off New Memory Chip
Posted by Darius Wey in "NEWS" @ 06:30 AM
"Flash memory and hard-disk drives could face a challenge from a new chip technology, dubbed phase-change memory, being developed by a group of companies led by IBM. The companies on Monday announced the results of their latest research into the technology, which they say will do a better job of storing songs, pictures, and other data on iPods and digital cameras than current flash memory, and could someday replace disk drives. Among the advances, the companies have built a prototype device that runs 500 times faster than today's flash memory while using half as much power to write data to a memory cell, they said. The circuits on the device are much smaller than those on today's flash chips, measuring just 3 by 20 nanometers, and show that, unlike flash, phase-change memory will be suitable for production on the advanced manufacturing techniques targeted for use in 2015, the companies said. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter."
I admit to initially being excited about this, until the article flashed the year 2015 halfway down the page. That's under a decade, folks. Happy waiting. ;)
I admit to initially being excited about this, until the article flashed the year 2015 halfway down the page. That's under a decade, folks. Happy waiting. ;)
