IBM Shows Off New Memory Chip

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/11/HNnewmemorychip_1.html' target='_blank'>http://www.infoworld.com/article/06...morychip_1.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Flash memory and hard-disk drives could face a challenge from a new chip technology, dubbed phase-change memory, being developed by a group of companies led by IBM. The companies on Monday announced the results of their latest research into the technology, which they say will do a better job of storing songs, pictures, and other data on iPods and digital cameras than current flash memory, and could someday replace disk drives. Among the advances, the companies have built a prototype device that runs 500 times faster than today's flash memory while using half as much power to write data to a memory cell, they said. The circuits on the device are much smaller than those on today's flash chips, measuring just 3 by 20 nanometers, and show that, unlike flash, phase-change memory will be suitable for production on the advanced manufacturing techniques targeted for use in 2015, the companies said. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter."</i><br /><br />I admit to initially being excited about this, until the article flashed the year 2015 halfway down the page. That's under a decade, folks. Happy waiting. ;)

[pivaska]

Hopefully by 2015 this will be old technology and speed and amount of memory will be just a side thought to processing power.

[peterjam28]

Hopefully by 2015 this will be old technology and speed and amount of memory will be just a side thought to processing power.

and we'll still have the same battery technology so they'll last about 3 seconds. :)

[JKingGrim]

Man I cant wait for a pocket pc phone with a VGA OLED (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_light-emitting_diode) screen, EVDO rev C, nano tube capacitor battery (http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:MIT_Nanotube_Super_Capacitor), Windows Mobile Photon (http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/photon-the-next-version-of-windows-mobile/), phase change memory, and a 1ghz monahans processor.

I just hope the &amp;*%@# alarms work! :mrgreen:

[Don Tolson]

my bet is that they'll have it 'on the market' in less than 5... (or at least, the Chinese will figure it out and make a copy).

[cqjb]

The part that gets me is the lack of quality workmanship these days that goes into these products.

If the CEO who hires the engineers could save 10 cents per device they will.

Amazes me, as a crystal that costs .10 more per device can withstand a diamond bit drill when digging for oil down 5 miles, but the one for .10 less will fail after being dropped 5 feet.

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[Phoenix]

2015???

Geesh! Wake me up when it's here.

[cqjb]

2015???

Geesh! Wake me up when it's here.

I Agree! - All corporate competition fluff, "Mine is bigger than yours"

[ricksfiona]

Eh! Anything can happen in 9 years... By that time, we'll be able to buy 1,000TB hard drives for $75, have life-like effects in games and God know what other goodies...

[saru83]

they should not even announce it if its for 2015, thats just ridiculous :!: