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- kingfoot, on 02/14/2009, -1/+11sounds like they will have a lot more room to do said shielding.
could this lead to wireless hard drives that just need a little power from say, a small rechargeable battery for portable drives, and a small power plug for inside a desktop computer or laptop? if transfer speeds are up to snuff, i think it would be wicked to just have a palm sized storage drive to take with you that can just connect to a computer for file transfer/use by just being in the same room. you wouldnt even need to take it out of your pocket save to turn it on (needs a power switch so its not sucking up power full time). - doiveo, on 02/13/2009, -1/+9Smart idea but I would think interference would be a huge problem. The chips (or memory region) would need pretty good shielding.
- inactive, on 02/14/2009, -0/+5One tiny detail escapes me. Is it truly wireless in sense that the signal travel through the air? Or they simply mean that each chip's conductors make direct contact instead of soldering a wire on it? The schematic in that article doesn't make this clear.
- freakFlag, on 02/14/2009, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_coupling
More details on Inductive Coupling - redgiemental, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2I think it's the latter.
If interference isn't a problem then this is amazing. - antdude, on 02/15/2009, -0/+2Mirror: http://hothardware.com.nyud.net/News/Wireless-Tech ...
- m6ack, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2This is not really wireless, but inductive coupling. This is the same effect as a transformer... This coupling should be quite good at close spacing -- as between dice. It should not be possible for electromagnetic interference to significantly disturb the effect.
- Mylf, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2I wouldn't think it would be as fast.
- sadisticmind, on 02/14/2009, -0/+1that would be scary and awesome at the same time.
- sadisticmind, on 02/14/2009, -1/+2***** u and your worthless link
- WernerCD, on 02/14/2009, -0/+1useless spam link. nothing to see here.
- MyMainMan, on 02/14/2009, -0/+1I don't think the speed will be a problem. There are already wireless routers today that exceed the speed of normal hard discs, and they work at much greater distances. It isn't RAM speeds that they are shooting for.
- WernerCD, on 02/14/2009, -0/+0"Wireless" as in Wirless A/B/G/N routers have plenty of speed... the problem with that kind of wireless tho is latency. I couldn't see that working with hard drives successfully in that regard.
I think this technology is 'wireless' in the sense that there are contacts on both sides of a 'data wafer'. Stack em and top touches bottom with smile metal bumps - not wires. So instead of wires connecting em all together, you just stack em and then 'wire' the different stacks.
Seems like one of those 'duh.. why didn't we think of this earlier' kinds of inventions. - zephyrprime, on 02/14/2009, -1/+1Is something like this fast enough? I don't think it would be as fast as wire.
- WernerCD, on 02/14/2009, -1/+0Useless link... nothing to see here
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