News Nanotube chip could hold 10 gigabits

From New Scientist:

A computer memory chip based on carbon nanotubes has passed a manufacturing milestone, according to the US company developing the technology.

The prototype chip would store information using hundreds of billions of nanotubes with a theoretical capacity of 10 gigabits of data, says Nantero, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Once fully developed, the company says nanoscale random access memory (NRAM) could hold more data that existing types of RAM and would also be non-volatile, meaning data would not be lost when the power is been turned off. Computers using such memory could boot up almost instantly. Nantero also claims that NRAM would be much faster than current non-volatile memory, such as Flash.

Nantero is not the only company hoping to use carbon nanotubes to make improved types of computer memory. But the company believes its advantage lies in the fact that its chips can be made using existing silicon manufacturing methods and would therefore be relatively cheap to make.

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Finally. They better make something of this technology. I'm tired of volatile RAM and slow hard drives .

 

Damn right!! More on the slow hard drive part