http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/science/31compute.html?_r=1
Excerpt: > [Currently] These chips store only 1,000 bits of data, but if > the new technology fulfills the promise its inventors see, > single chips that store as much as today's highest capacity > disk drives could be possible in five years. The new method > involves filaments as thin as five nanometers in width - > thinner than what the industry hopes to achieve by the end > of the decade using standard techniques. The initial > discovery was made by Jun Yao, a graduate researcher at > Rice. Mr. Yao said he stumbled on the switch by accident. ... > I.B.M., Intel and other companies are already pursuing a > competing technology called phase-change memory, which uses > heat to transform a glassy material from an amorphous state > to a crystalline one and back. Never say never! Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
