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February 2nd 2006 at 6:23 pm in When I was a kid, popular science magazines were already having wet-dreams about nano-technology and all the possible good it will bring.
It took an awful long while before the technology is now finally used!
IT week reports Nantero will soon be shipping DIMMs built with a new technology. It will contain so called carbon nanotubes, dubbed buckytubes:
If you’ve never come across them, carbon nanotubes are extremely small cylinders made up of carbon atoms – they’re about 50,000 times thinner than a human hair.
Although they don’t occur naturally, they have similar properties to setae, which are those tiny hairs on the feet of gecko lizards.
You got to read the whole article to read how it works, but the important part is (emphasis mine):
The coming chips can’t walk up walls, but they can retain information without requiring the near constant electrical refresh cycles associated with current DRAM technologies.
Pretty amazing…
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