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- dvsbastard, on 04/21/2009, -2/+64"Soon your computer and electronic gadgets could be much smaller, faster, cheaper, more reliable and even greener..."
Isn't that just the standard progression of technology?! I mean here I was hoping this change would make gadgets larger, slower, more expensive and less reliable... - IvanB, on 04/20/2009, -1/+56If racetrack really does bring all of those benefits, I approve.
- nurbsenvi, on 04/21/2009, -1/+30Stop the ***** tease and tell me when I can actually insert it.
- built2spill, on 04/21/2009, -0/+23"Racetrack is showing to be more reliable than hard disks, making consistent computer crashes, well, a distant memory. "
So, every time my computer crashes, I should blame faults in my hard disk, not bad software/OS. Check. - benologist, on 04/21/2009, -0/+17.... I don't know what the Montreal Gazette is doing for you but I feel like I'm missing out on something.
- dafragsta, on 04/21/2009, -0/+10They should just stop trying. I mean, none of that stuff ever makes it to market.
You do realize that you hear about new technology about 2-10 years before its ever ready for primetime right? Remember perpendicular recording, OLED, BlueTooth, and ePaper? They were all marketing hyperbole long before they were ever a reality, but that doesn't mean the technology wasn't there. It just means it wasn't ready for mass production or the process for mass production hadn't even been invented yet. People will have long forgotten that intel talked about having a chip with dozens of cores in the pipeline in 2006 by the time it finally comes out, but you just won't remember. - FattyMagee, on 04/21/2009, -1/+11Does anyone else want to strangle the writer for calling it memory and making me think its a new type of ram technology and not a new type of storage technology?
- Lonewolfx77, on 04/21/2009, -1/+11This is such awesome technology!
- mankyd, on 04/21/2009, -1/+10This was on the web a year ago: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13648
Stop whining. - Skysurfer27, on 04/21/2009, -0/+9They mention 5 - 7 years in the article.
- benologist, on 04/21/2009, -0/+9Beats what we get for being a your mom user.
- angryfirelord, on 04/21/2009, -0/+9I'm still waiting for the dual portable 5.25" floppy drive computer.
http://*****.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/im ... - diptheria, on 04/21/2009, -0/+8And RAMBUS wasn't developed by IBM who has an excellent track record at technology development that makes it to market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IBM_products. While not everything they do turns out, I am willing to give them some latitude based on their past achievements...
- LucasHenderson, on 04/21/2009, -0/+8"But, more importantly, there will be more sites that will be able to give away storage for free, like YouTube.com and Gmail.com."
Yeah, cause bandwidth isn't an issue at all. - copypastry, on 04/21/2009, -0/+8I didn't think they ever said anything about rambus being cheaper.
- veriix, on 04/21/2009, -0/+7Don't copy that floppy!
- tmanv, on 04/21/2009, -2/+9Racetrack is a stupid name.
- barc0001, on 04/21/2009, -0/+6You'd prefer "Starbuck", or "Cat"? Maybe "Boomer"?
- datagod, on 04/21/2009, -2/+8I'll give you 20 to 1 that it won't appear any time soon...
- Tanelorn, on 04/21/2009, -0/+6The world isn't ready!
- Photonichip, on 04/21/2009, -0/+5sounds good, I look forward to its release 5 to 7 years from now. hopefully it will aid in the perfection of AI?
- mrBitch, on 04/21/2009, -0/+5Apple bought more than a quarter of the world's flash supply? Yes that is correct :
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-Buying-a-039- ...
"... Apple has bought out Samsung's entire available supply, putting the world's largest producer of flash memory on allocation until April 2009. Samsung is said to be producing 40 percent of the world's entire supply of NAND Flash RAM." - mattrmcg, on 04/21/2009, -3/+8*Insert Obligatory "Can It Run Crysis" Remark*
- Yarkz, on 04/21/2009, -1/+6It can load Crysis but that's it...
- fluxion, on 04/21/2009, -1/+6dude, you just got pwned by a period
- molotovcat, on 04/21/2009, -2/+7 You'll forget about it before it ever becomes viable. Scientific sensationalism is all the rage.
- noahgelman, on 04/21/2009, -1/+6........ can it?
- hongkongjapie, on 04/21/2009, -3/+8"Interestingly, more than a quarter of the world's flash supply goes to Apple and their iPod/iPhone products, which shows how useful it is currently."
That can't be correct, or can it? I mean mobile phones, digital camera's, embedded devices, motherboards, memory cards, ... Has anyone numbers on this? - fabio1, on 04/21/2009, -1/+5Kevin: When will the new copier be ready?
Pam: I'm working on it Kev.
Kevin: You said it would be ready by today. And it is today.
Pam: It'll be ready soon.
Kevin: Soon could mean anything. Soon could be 3 weeks.
Pam: Is that what 'soon' means to you?
Kevin: Sometimes.
Pam: Then come back soon. - lemur, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4I remember being given a test in high school a great many years ago that had to do with reading comprehension, and we had a sample article that was describing Blu-Ray in general terms, and I remember thinking, "Why can't they hurry this stuff up if they already know all about how it works." I didn't actually start hearing about Blu-Ray until many years later, and it was some time before it actually hit the market.
- JayD16, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4All those things use flash but not many are 8-16 gigs at a time.
- bbeep, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4That's the point of universal memory - to do away with the distinction between RAM and storage. If the technology becomes viable, Racetrack will do that.
- ChappyChaps11, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4That's what she said?
- IllBeBack, on 04/21/2009, -2/+6"soon"
"could be"
How soon? - benologist, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4Boomercat.
- Schmich, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4Yeah, I wish there was a way you could automatically keep track of those "new theory/prototype/lab experiments" and see how they work out.
- j0hnglist, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3thats actually a very good idea for a website
- theone156, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3When Skynet takes over?
- Macintoshreader, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3I think it's possible. Typically, Apple sells 20-25 million iPods in one quarter, and 3-5 million iPhones. That's 23,000,000 to 30,000,000 sold.
- dafragsta, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3It helps build a waiting market. If people see the technology is working on some scale, then the companies that come out with it have a way to build expectations for what they can do now and what they can do in a given timeline relative to some new product from some other company. Sometimes that never really happens before or after a real product launch and is ultimately the reason that a lot of technology sounded cool but wasn't practical breaks down, but it's all part of the process. The Cell processor promised the world on a chip and finally came out and that thing was hyped for years but it has yet to get any real consideration outside of the PS3. It helps to know what's coming out nonetheless, even if it fails. A lot of that judgment of failure happens before some technology ever makes it into a product.
- LucasHenderson, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3I, too, clicked expecting an article on RAM.
- duewydo, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3lemur, I remember being a junior in high school and reading an article on blue ray and how it was going to be the next big leap in storage technology. At this that point they were calling it something like blue light vs red light I think. That must had been back in 97~98 over ten years ago, amazing how time flies.
- inflation, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3Reminds of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ
- Lonandubh, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3Perhaps? One of the big differences between computer processing and cerebral processing, apparently, is that for computers, computations are cheap and accessing memory is expensive (in terms of time/effort) while it seems that for humans, memory access is cheap and computations are expensive. So anything that makes memory accessing cheap will help make computers more human-like.
- ncgmac, on 04/21/2009, -1/+3NASCAR threatened to sue if they called it Superspeedway.
- bbeep, on 04/21/2009, -0/+2Cheaper and more reliable hardware costs can partially or fully offset the bandwidth costs.
- m00n1, on 04/21/2009, -1/+3When was the last time we saw a sudden quantum leap in performance of PCs? About, lemme think.... never. Sure, many many incremental improvements, but I can't remember a time when it was suddenly "omg! I must have a new computer as it will instantly be 5 times faster than what I'm running". I have $10 that says this will end up being an incremental improvement, if at all.
- Elderon, on 04/21/2009, -0/+2I don't know. I'm sure most issues would be software related (spyware, viruses..etc) but I think people would be a little surprised how much is hardware related. Hard drive failures can be a bit tricky to notice or diagnose when they first start going bad.
- dirtmonkey, on 04/21/2009, -0/+2I am sure this will fit right into IBM's plans to make cloud computing a reality
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