Comments on: High-capacity 3D transparent memory a step closer to reality

By: Bri

Bri — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:43:29 +0000

I understand your point and I agree. Carbon nano tubes are very expensive and not cost effective for much other than research. Some technologies are more attractive. I think this will be one, because of many of the characteristics described in the article. It’s temperature durability, it’s memory density, transparency, and flexibility. There was an article recently, describing flexible phones. OLED’s also are very flexible. One of the big drawbacks of personal electronic devices is their inflexibility. My IPhone has gorilla glass, and it adds to costs and weight. These factors coupled together should propel this type of technology ahead of the pack. One of the reasons the smaller companies don’t want to invest in the latest tech, is that there are other things on the horizon that they think might be more worth while. It’s hard to judge their decisions, because they have more inside information, and they have to keep it secret in order to compete. Most of the articles here are purely research, but its fun to speculate!

By: Renzo Canepari

Renzo Canepari — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:37:04 +0000

Bri,
We’ll see how long it takes. One of the big troubles with hi tech is the initial capital outlay. A state of the art–450 millimeter wafer– semiconductor factory is ten billion dollars.
Last year, Intel broke ground on a new factory complex in Arizona, and they decided to use the old 300 millimeter technology.
Hewlett Packard is ready to proceed with mass production of the memristor, but HP’s other businesses are flat, so the work- over of the Hynix factory that will be employed is moving much more slowly than either company wants for the dearth of funds.
Don’t hold your breath on this stuff happening anytime soon unless an ultra big boy like INTEL or Texas Instruments gets involved.
Remember carbon nanotubes? We’re all still waiting.

By: Dirk Bruere

Dirk Bruere — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:58:18 +0000

When Moore’s Law falters because feature size is approaching atomic limits, start printing in sheets measuring square metres, and roll them up.

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:53:51 +0000

Glass smass, let’s just move on to something a little more flexible!

By: A4i

A4i — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:19:30 +0000

That discovery means integrating of all digital devices in a smartphone on it’s glass screen substrate. So a smartphone will have just screen, battery, casing and a small analog/antenna block.

By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:58:49 +0000

Just think of the memory in a pair of glasses!!

By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:57:34 +0000

It takes a lot of heat to warm the planet. One of the new things that they have learned in studying global warming, is that the earth radiated an increased amount into space.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:57:18 +0000

If you apply Moore’s Law to the most powerful computer I saw at Best Buy last Sunday, which was 10 gigs, then by 2019 your PC will have 320 gigs of Ram and 32 Terabits of memory.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:37:20 +0000

Yes, Bri…not to mention the working memory of all those robot asteroid miners.

By: Pervert

Pervert — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:42:15 +0000

So, to put things in perspective, how much RAM do you think the best desktop computers of 2019 might have?

By: Vin

Vin — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:11:16 +0000

I had a ironic idea lol, more energy generated from office buildings, cheaper energy, people don’t need to earn as much for energy, so fewer people in office buildings, so fewer office buildings, less energy generated from office buildings… Also I want to ask another question, if all energy conversion produces heat, and energy alternatives grow exponentially, what’s going happen about all the excess heat? Won’t it overheat the earth?

By: tim the realist

tim the realist — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:46:01 +0000

imagine all of the windows in office buildings being huge sheets of solar powered 3d memory. now that’s a cloud!

By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:35:57 +0000

This tech would be ideal for the space based backup, in case of catastrophe, and those moon servers.