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- Senn, on 12/27/2007, -3/+19Sounds truly great, but Duke Nukem Forever comes to mind...
- badmephisto, on 12/27/2007, -0/+11"have been exploring the suitability of self-assembled arrays of quantum dots for nonvolatile storage"
translation: They did some math and it looks like they may have a proof of concept in next 15 years. - Darkhacker, on 12/27/2007, -4/+14This is yet another amazing new technology article that will fade into oblivion. We see these "cure for cancer, solve world hunger, and have infinitely fast computers on store shelves in five years!" type articles and then we never hear from them again. It's a cool idea, but I won't really be impressed into I see a real working prototype or these actually become available to consumers.
- Salgat, on 12/27/2007, -0/+8I hope it comes out within the decade and is relatively cheap to buy. I drool at the idea of removing the need for RAM (or as another perspective, having RAM the size of your hard drive).
- a1532b, on 12/27/2007, -0/+7Quantum dots are a liiiitle bit more complex than an automatic door...
- dualaudi, on 12/27/2007, -2/+9This is set to be released the same time flying cars are to hit the market. Not sure why you're being pessimistic about it...
- cynic573, on 12/27/2007, -3/+10More DoTS... MORE DoTS...
okay, stop DoTS. - knifesideleft, on 12/27/2007, -0/+3"Big Hard Drive"
Well I lol'd - OwdenBowden, on 12/27/2007, -0/+3Agreed but I always have a problem with getting the dots off the paper. Never fails to have a mouth full of DOTS and Paper at the same time.
- riah, on 12/27/2007, -0/+3It's the truth, though. I don't know why everyone is expecting this to be in the next PlayStation or something. We've had flash memory cards for over 15 years and they are just recently replacing HDD with solid state. These quantum devices are the new frontier of computing. It'll take time.
- Mockylock, on 12/27/2007, -0/+2BRING BACK THE RAM DISK!
- iidianonymous, on 12/27/2007, -0/+2I am not going to digg you down. Instead I will send you over the quantum dot potential barrier.
- Audacitor, on 12/27/2007, -0/+2automatic_doors != computer_storage;
automatic_doors.complexity < computer_storage.complexity;
break; - LetsGoHawks, on 12/27/2007, -0/+2What gets really interesting is how this would change computer architecture. I don't know the math involved here, but how many registers and how much L1 cache will this result in. If it's small enough, what happens if you can have a stick of ram that doesn't eneed refreshing that can hold terrabytes..... no need for anything like a hard drive......
I'm just rambling here. ... Big Hard Drive will never let this reach the market. lol - AllnightChemist, on 12/27/2007, -0/+2About as much as I wish money was edible.
- Atomic1fire, on 12/27/2007, -0/+2anyone else wish the memory was edible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DotsCandy.jpeg - streakybacon, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1Why would you even start to type?
- bradleyland, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1Seemed like a good idea at the time, eh?
- crazysamz, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1Just wait until this technology appears on the market, we'll be using our hard-drives as exercising weights!
- yodaj007, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1Read the article again. Every time the author talks about the refresh rate he's talking about the DRAM.
- Atomic1fire, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1I think this might cause markets to go from hardware to software
because if you have a Hard drive that can last a long time while also holding a lot of memory you wont need another one anytime soon
it will probably end up like how games make more money then consoles - Derrekito, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1What is the official status of said game? Was it just a joke?
- AllnightChemist, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1Didn't Ricky Gervais invent these for his show "Brain Jail?" I think they can hover, too.
- yodaj007, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, perhaps?
- bradleyland, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1I agree and disagree.
Agreed, rambling commentary on quantum computing has been around for years, and "quantum dots" have been around since the very early stages of these ramblings. They are a baseline concept. Before you can do any logic, you must be able to store a simple set of data.
Having said that, quantum dots, unlike a cure for cancer and solutions for world hunger, exist in laboratories. There is an entire support structure that must be engineered before the quantum dot concept can be implemented in a workable format. As the pieces fall in line, we come close and closer to quantum storage.
Once upon a time, the idea of creating 45nm transistors was unthinkable. The technology exists today, it's just not to a point where it will fit in to a 3.5"/5.25" bay or 200-pin SODIMM slot. - inactive, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1You'd think that the first customers for this technology will be government archives or huge college libraries looking to save space.
- bradleyland, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1Your comment embodies the irrelevance of the state of DNF. It wasn't a joke, it _is_ a joke.
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -0/+1Will QD memory require cryogenic temperatures? That won't be cheap.
It is still unknown just how reliable such devices can be in any case. - jggube, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Like the "burning salt water" craze... anybody that paid attention to their high school physics class will know that that project was just for shock value more than a revolutionary source of energy.
- bradleyland, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1See also: tmpfs, ramdisk
- yodaj007, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1It is. Your body just won't get anything out of it. That's a lot of fiber.
- greensky, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1haha.... have you seen this: http://www.jinx.com/men/shirts/video_games/more_do ...
- bradleyland, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1The article doesn't talk about anything related to registers or L1 cache. It talks about non-volatile memory and DRAM, which is entirely different.
Any answer to your hypothetical question would be pure speculation. The best information anyone can offer you is some information about the size of quantum dots.
In terms of questioning how much smaller quantum dot arrays could be compared to today's transistors -- say, 45 nm process -- you need only to know that today's quantum dots range from 2 to 10 nm according to some references found on Wikipedia:
http://www.nn-labs.com/cdsesizingcurve.html
http://www.nn-labs.com/cdssizingcurve.html
This is a testament to just how far transistor technology has come, as 45 nm is only a single order of magnitude from fledgling quantum dot technology. Compare to early transistors versus vacuum tubes, which were hundreds of orders of magnitude smaller. - verkon, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1I thought of that very song
- AllnightChemist, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1You are wise indeed, Yodaj007.
- a1532b, on 12/28/2007, -0/+1Yes. Yes I do.
- fryguy1013, on 12/27/2007, -1/+1more dots?
- crossers, on 07/22/2008, -0/+0oh amazing. and when we can see this in procedure?
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http://www.chasr.org/ - komatose, on 12/28/2007, -0/+0sounds kinda like that ice cream - Dippin Dots
now with data storage - djdtm, on 12/28/2007, -0/+0you say that now. ;)
- cranium, on 12/27/2007, -2/+1Somebody want to explain why the author is rambling about refresh rates for non-volatile memory? I don't get it.
- aserino, on 12/27/2007, -1/+0Nanotechnology is truly the next industrial revolution and this just goes to show its great potential. So invest in this companies while the are small because before you know it they will be selling products like hot cakes.
- CyberStriker, on 12/27/2007, -2/+1DoTS + Fear + run like hell = easy kill.
Oh wait, hang on... Am I thinking of a different DoTS? - djdtm, on 12/28/2007, -2/+0Audacitor.ignorance > 9000
OVER 9000!!!! - TheMachine1, on 12/27/2007, -4/+0midi-chlorians based memory?
- slvrbullet87, on 12/27/2007, -6/+0Sounds pretty cool as far as tech goes. Sound really lame as far as cost goes. And people say RAM for macs is expensive.
- djdtm, on 12/27/2007, -6/+0Well, you have to think, how long did it take us to make automatic doors that were fictional during Star Trek's or Star War's first appearance where the concept was first conceived, but are now in almost every convenient and grocery store.
- celkin, on 12/27/2007, -16/+3I can't think of something insightful to say, so digg me down...
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