The revolution continues

[fishsupreme]

And the commercialization of nanotechnology that I discussed previously continues.

Nantero claims to have a working prototype for a carbon-nanotube based memory faster, cheaper, and denser than silicon memory -- and best of all, nonvolatile. So it keeps its contents when electrical power is cut, like a disk drive. Only faster than RAM.

There are some articles available (that was three different links, by the way) about this, if you're interested.

The part that interests me is that they're looking at commercialization next year. New scientific developments happen all the time. It's common commercial use of them that's truly revolutionary.

Comments

[libertyscribe.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's truly awesome. I did a report on non-volatile RAM technology in school, biggest drawback was it would take up more room per bit. If these folks can get that technology to work, we may answer that theoretical question of what we would do with infinite memory storage.

[contrariandoer.livejournal.com]

If this works, then to transfer data from one
computer to another in a reasonable amount of time
becomes a problem.