montrealgazette.com— Soon your computer and electronic gadgets could be much smaller, faster, cheaper, more reliable and even greener thanks to a new form of computer memory technology called racetrack.
Apr 20, 2009View in Crawl 4
They leave out the fact that by the time this technology is available, Windows 19 will be over 6 TB in size and your super fast Racetrack-based computer will still take a couple minutes to boot, because as hardware grows, so grows the software. By then, we'll all be talking about Windows 20 and the promised speed gains and stability it will offer.
I'll believe it when I see it. MEMS-based storage (either on phase-change or magnetic media) got a lot of press in the late '90s. It was always two years away from commercialization, year after year. Never happened.
ekrubApr 21, 2009
They leave out the fact that by the time this technology is available, Windows 19 will be over 6 TB in size and your super fast Racetrack-based computer will still take a couple minutes to boot, because as hardware grows, so grows the software. By then, we'll all be talking about Windows 20 and the promised speed gains and stability it will offer.
donteatthefishApr 21, 2009
if only faster and cheaper but not smaller you still don't approve?
infinitenothingApr 21, 2009
Generally, more individual chips, more capacity right?
papileApr 21, 2009
This was mentioned about 2 years ago with the original research here: <a class="user" href="http://focus.aps.org/story/v19/st14">http://focus.aps.org/story/v19/st14</a> It seems very possible but there are problems with the wire. The article there discusses this.
Closed AccountApr 21, 2009
boobies
dooganApr 21, 2009
Or when you read how they claim it works. This article is very skimpy on the details. Check out IBM's press release. They have references to some of the physical concepts they wish to take advantage of in developing this technology.--<a class="user" href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23859.wss">http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/238 ...</a>
bodomoApr 21, 2009
I'll believe it when I see it. MEMS-based storage (either on phase-change or magnetic media) got a lot of press in the late '90s. It was always two years away from commercialization, year after year. Never happened.
ansibleApr 21, 2009
Here's one: <a class="user" href="http://wrongtomorrow.com/predictions/all/open">http://wrongtomorrow.com/predictions/all/open</a>