arstechnica.com — Flash storage is the component that makes low power electronics so flexible. Unlike RAM, flash memory will stay written for about 10 years without power. However, we pay for that convenience in access times, which are much slower than those for RAM.
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celkinDec 27, 2007
I can't think of something insightful to say, so digg me down...
bradleylandDec 27, 2007
The 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:<a class="user" href="http://www.nn-labs.com/cdsesizingcurve.html">http://www.nn-labs.com/cdsesizingcurve.html</a><a class="user" href="http://www.nn-labs.com/cdssizingcurve.html">http://www.nn-labs.com/cdssizingcurve.html</a>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.
jggubeJan 16, 2008
Like 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.
crossersJul 22, 2008
oh amazing. and when we can see this in procedure?<a class="user" href="http://www.shpe-sac.org">http://www.shpe-sac.org</a><a class="user" href="http://www.ocflex.com/">http://www.ocflex.com/</a> <a class="user" href="http://www.trgovinca.org">http://www.trgovinca.org</a><a class="user" href="http://www.chasr.org/">http://www.chasr.org/</a>