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Nantero, the company that invented carbon nanotube-based non-volatile memory in 2001 and has been developing it since, has announced that seven chip fabrication plants are now manufacturing its Nano-RAM (NRAM) wafers and test chips in preparation for mass production, which requires the product designs to be completed. The company has announced that aerospace giant Lockheed Martin and Schlumberger Ltd., the world's largest gas and oil exploration and drilling company, will be customers seeking to use its chip technology. The memory, which can withstand 300 °C temperatures for years without losing data, is natively thousands of times faster than NAND flash and has virtually infinite read/write resilience. Nantero plans on licensing its intellectual property to allow others to create gum stick SSDs using DDR4 interfaces. NRAM has the potential to create memory that is vastly more dense that NAND flash, as its transistors can shrink to below 5 nanometers in size, three times more dense than today's densest NAND flash. At the same time, NRAM is up against a robust field of new memory technologies that are expected to challenge NAND flash in speed, endurance and capacity, such as Phase-Change Memory and Ferroelectric RAM (FRAM).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:46AM
You know, there is a part of this geek that thinks maybe computers are fast enough already and that we should be careful before we replace ourselves with a superior intelligence.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:50AM
If Moore's law just died forever, your AI artilect overlords would just be half-silicon, half-biological.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:57AM
Computers already do everything I want them to do. I should start a blog about how everything is fine. But I won't because blogging isn't something I want to do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @12:40PM
What you obviously are in dire need of is a computer that would blog for you...
In almost related news "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso
(Score: 1) by Refugee from beyond on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:22AM
Not yet. Not until I can ran an AI on my single PC.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday June 04 2015, @07:58AM
You mean, like nobody will ever need more than 640KB?
As every scientists will tell you, faster computers are always welcome. Imagine a computer powerful enough to simulate a living cell in real time. You could do a lot of medical research on that.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:25PM
It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we do those simulations. In nature you just set up the system and have certain laws and there you go. No supercomputer required (unless we do live in a simulation..but assume not for this case). It could be related to the possibility time is continuous while the simulations increment in discrete steps.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:45PM
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:02PM
I think you are vastly overrating the human ability to create anything remotely approaching the creation of a "superior intelligence". You might be able to create a machine that is on average "smarter" than the average person, but it won't have the same amount of individuality that humans do. We are a long, long, long way from "I, Robot".
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