6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? 687
Stuk writes "Research & development company AtomChip have announced a new 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD laptop, which is "coming soon". Apparently it does not use a hard disc, instead it is based on "solid state AtomChip® optoelectronics". A new "non-volatile Quantum-Optical" type of RAM is used. Other features include voice commands, "Num Lock mode, Caps Lock mode, Scroll Lock mode". They're spoiling us." If Nintendogs has taught me anything, it's that voice recognition is awesome and should be used for everything. *cough*. And also to be skeptical of this many buzzwords.
Does time travel as well (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Does time travel as well (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Does time travel as well (Score:5, Funny)
It actually does! (and they have the pictures!) (Score:5, Funny)
http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page5.html [atomchip.com]
Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!) (Score:3, Interesting)
They have a website claiming this since 2002, the guy, creator even has a patent
CES? US Patent? How could he make such a big lie? Why ?
Link to the patent [uspto.gov]
Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!) (Score:3, Informative)
Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!) (Score:3, Informative)
Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!) (Score:3, Informative)
You know, the only thing that's really absurd is the memory. 1TB RAM? Exactly how many ram DIMMS would that be?
The 6.8ghz is plausible, never been done in a laptop but some guy did manage 7ghz [slashdot.org].
And 2TB hard drive isn't too far off, not in laptop drives but he could have four 500gB SATA-II [slashdot.org] desktop drives in there.
So, as crazy as this sounds only his ram specs make it obviously vaporware. Had he said 2 or 4gB it'd actually
Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!) (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/i
Re:Does time travel as well (Score:3, Funny)
They forgot the most important feature of all (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They forgot the most important feature of all (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They forgot the most important feature of all (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They forgot the most important feature of all (Score:3, Funny)
And gets outstanding frame rates on Duke Nukem Forever.
Re:They forgot the most important feature of all (Score:3, Funny)
And comes with Duke Nukem Forever preinstalled!
Look no further! (Score:3, Insightful)
If you trouble yourself to view other posts you will not dozens of idiot geek wanna-bees shocked that slashdot editors did not spot the technical errors of this article. I imagine they are outraged by the obvious political bias of The Onion and Madd Magazine?
Did no one else notice (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Did no one else notice (Score:4, Informative)
4 x 1.7 = 6.8
is true,
4 x 1.7GHz != 6.8GHz
In other words a system with four processors running at 1.7GHz aren't going to deliver 6.8GHz of processing ability.
Re:Did no one else notice (Score:3, Insightful)
processing ability isn't measured in Hz (the unit of cycles per second), the rate at which a small group of transistors and capacitors will wiggle at is measured in Hz. Since modern CPUs have several clocks, the Hz for a single CPU is just as made up as that for a group of four CPUs.
6.8GHz is as real as 1.7 GHz and just as uninteresting.
When they say "clockless" I might pay attention.
Re:Does time travel as well (Score:3, Informative)
We run Java on desktop apps for banks and retail outlets on close to 100,000 desktops.
Anything from signature retrieval, and complex comfortable drag and drop, fluid document management suites in Java, to advanced sales systems.
The only real issue with Java on desktop was installation, and webstart kinda kicked that one in the nut.
If you webstart something, it is so nice to install it.
google square heads demo, click web start, then some back and apologise.
yip.
Vaporware? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vaporware? (Score:5, Informative)
Phantom? (Score:5, Funny)
DNF is finished, but it's been rebundled as an exclusive release for Infineon's Phantom game console. They're waiting for the hardware to ship to customers... ;)
Time and again... (Score:5, Insightful)
I've been waiting for 14 years for the technology to become real, and like nuclear fusion, I suspect I'll be waiting forever...
Re:Time and again... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Time and again... (Score:5, Interesting)
they claim the price will be $4.50 per GB of ram
So... the box as specced will cost nine grand just for the memory?
This must be the system Thomas Watson was speasking of when he was quoted as "seeing a worldwide market for about five" of them (I'm paraphrasing, of course)
Re:Time and again... (Score:3, Interesting)
Ah, but you may still be in the market when I point out this word: lease.
Re:Time and again... (Score:5, Funny)
They certainly are bold claims. In fact, almost the whole damn site is in bold type!
OBVIOUSLY LEGIT (Score:5, Funny)
Only an idiot would think that was fake. ARE YOU AN IDIOT??!?
Re:OBVIOUSLY LEGIT (Score:2)
Re:OBVIOUSLY LEGIT (Score:5, Informative)
The link also contains some contact info.
Re:OBVIOUSLY LEGIT (Score:3, Informative)
Yeah, interesting link.. note that ONLY the 1TB memory chip has a cost of USD $6000. From the product specification:
<i>
Specifications [200-pin SODIMM]: 1) DC Input Voltage : 1.4V ±5% ; 2) Standby : <0.25µA; 3) Read : 1.0 µA ; 4) Write: 1.5 µA ; 5) Reading time : 0.3 ns ; 6) Update time : 0.5 ns ; 7) Temperature Operating : -50+125 C ; 8) Humidity Operating : 5 - 95% ; 9) Shack Operat
Power (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Power (Score:5, Insightful)
"Battery Life: Approximately 8 hours for AtomChip® Quantum® II processor"
OTOH, I suspect that the true power usage for this laptop will be zero.
Seeing as vaporware doesn't actually draw any current.
Re:Power (Score:2)
Re:Power (Score:2)
But I like the user name, BTW...
Re:Power (Score:2, Informative)
No, no, no (Score:3, Funny)
"The new AtomChip® Quantum® II processor with 256MB on-board memory has a high speed with very low consumption of electrical energy."
It uses very little elecrical energy. What I have to figure out though is what other type of energy it uses. I'm suspecting bullshit or some other type biological energy source.
Wow, what utter BS (Score:2)
Still not enough! (Score:3, Funny)
With all those powerhouse specs and without decent video, how am I supposed to play WoW on that?
The sound you just heard... (Score:5, Insightful)
And this, gentlemen, is why I don't pay for a subscription to Slashdot.
OSNews discussion link. (Score:5, Informative)
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11784 [osnews.com]
Read the debunking for yourself.
Re:The sound you just heard... (Score:2, Informative)
This place is going downhill, so i think i'll just join the others migrating to some other nerd site.
Who knows, maybe i'll donate this account to GNAA. They at least have some editorial quality, journalistic integrity and some entertaining value.
Re:The sound you just heard... (Score:3, Insightful)
Frequent articles, interesting stuff?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Re:The sound you just heard... (Score:5, Informative)
Bullshit detector on overdrive (Score:2)
No, you can tell from the hairbrained bu
Re:The sound you just heard... (Score:5, Informative)
Is it April already? (Score:3, Insightful)
Why a low res screen? (Score:2)
Re:Why a low res screen? (Score:2)
Look at the pisspoor job he did on the Memory counter. I know the old chestnut of "a bad photoshop" can be applied here because all you have to do is look at the CPU/Memory count and you can see the freakin' grey box around it.
But, hey, maybe my eyes are going.
Any laptop that has built in Bluetoth can't be all bad.
Multi-tasking on Windows XP (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, maybe by "TB" they don't mean tera-byte, but instead 'tiny-byte', a brand new term meaning really, really freaking small.
Infineon Console..? (Score:2, Funny)
Then I realised it had nothing to do with them.
Strange how I confused a vapourware console with this.
Is it April First already? (Score:5, Informative)
When I read the summary, I looked for the 'It's funny. Laugh' foot icon to the right, but my search was in vain...apparently, we're supposed to take this seriously.
In the article, there is a screenshot of a supposed 'System Properties' dialog box showing the following:
Never mind the indecision between using commas (6,80 Ghz) and decimal points (1.00 TB), but according to Microsoft [microsoft.com], the most physical memory a Windows XP Professional system can support is 4 GB (or 128 GB for 64-bit edition [msdn.com]).
In short, I call shennigans.
Re:Is it April First already? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Is it April First already? (Score:3, Insightful)
Definite Photoshop.
But you know what is going to happen... (Score:2)
Easy answer - mutli-core! (Score:3, Funny)
Well obviously they have a Quantum multi-core design, with eight cores each running XP Pro you get a TB of memory supported and the dialogue just adds it all up!
The whole comma/decimal point inconsitancy is a byproduct of the quantum design, which locks in actual characters used in a di
Re:Is it April First already? (Score:3, Informative)
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
2800+
1.81 Ghz, 1,00 GB RAM
Same indecision, albeit at opposite sides. I'd let this single one slide because of this, although I don't believe the story as a whole.
A fraud, according to the OSNews community. (Score:5, Insightful)
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11784 [osnews.com]
Some people have pointed out some interesting discrepancies in the images and so forth.
Re:A fraud, according to the OSNews community. (Score:4, Insightful)
http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html [atomchip.com]
particularly:
http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimag
Now, supposing you're a super genius engineer, who has come up with all this clever technology advancement which no one else has been able to think of. Do you:
a) design a nice new physical interface for it?
b) make it 100% physically compatible with devices it is not meant to be plugged into so that it can be easily accidentally damaged?
This site is a pretty thoroughly obvious fake. In fact, you pretty much have to assume that the fakers are intentionally leaving it sufficiently fake to avoid tricking anyone even slightly technologically inclined, and that it is in fact only targetted at trolling news media morons and slashdot editors.
Re:A fraud, according to the OSNews community. (Score:5, Funny)
W00t (Score:3, Funny)
I can't be bothered with this.
[Something about a beowulf cluster of these goes here]
Martin
Nanomicrons...? (Score:3, Interesting)
Right. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Right. (Score:2)
Reminds me of a bong... (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome to the world of nanomicrons... (Score:2)
Did you know that this guy totally won a Gold Genius award, a Special Gold Award, and the prestigious Grand Prix for an Excellent Scientific Invention at the World Genius Convention [compu-technics.com] in Tokyo, Japan?
I used to laugh at sites like this. Then the nanomicrons got me. I don't laugh anymore, man.
Quantum Everywhere (Score:2)
Well, their RAM (if it actually exists oustide of someones head) is actually some form of holographic storage according to this other page [atomchip.com] of theirs.
So... (Score:2)
Sounds like they're using video game console math (Score:2)
Fake, obviously (Score:5, Funny)
This image alone... http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimage s/256Mx6M.jpg [atomchip.com] (from http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html [atomchip.com] )
It's the "NvIOpRAM 24GB [3-pin]", also known as the 1/4" to 1/8" gold-plated headphone adapter available at RadioShacks everywhere.
Re:Fake, obviously (Score:3, Funny)
Highly dubious (Score:3, Interesting)
The Register [theregister.co.uk] has a link to the company's press release [atomchip.com] with a few pictures. The so-called "Quantum II" processor shown in the "processor compartment" bears a striking resemblance to a mobile Pentium III chip with a heat pipe and fan assembly arranged almost identically to those in Dell laptops. The various
Quite funny. (Score:2)
Very misleading... (Score:5, Insightful)
After reading that portion of the specification, I find it difficult to read the rest of it without laughing openly.
Nice try.
Let me play: I have a 1.4 Ghz Thinkpad, a 2.8 Ghz HP Presario laptop, and a 500 Mhz iBook. Using the logic from the specifications at that site, those three laptops mean that I have a single 4.7 Ghz laptop? If so, please tell me how I can get Tiger to run at that speed on that 500 Mhz iBook!
Appearently this will be quite expensive! (Score:2)
Emulator-nation here I come! (Score:2)
Interesting they will be at CES 2006 (Score:3)
I would love to be there to see a demo... While being at CES doesn't mean its ready for the world it does mean this is more then just a prank.
Its a real company, with possibly real products although they could just be fishing for stupid investors also, Wish I could be there to find out
You forgot to add... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm disappointed (Score:2)
hummm (Score:2, Insightful)
And their 2GB device, I mean, 2TB device, that use 5V and 2.5 --> MICRO -- amps to WRITE 6GB per second ? It would take much more just to have the circuit resistance beaten =)
They also claim 2000g operating shock
Prototype (Score:2)
Some fun facts... (Score:2)
http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhi
Personally, I'd rather have the pixie dist they're using then whatever supposed invention they're presenting
I must be obsolete (Score:2)
Domain Registration (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Domain Registration (Score:3, Funny)
Shimon Gendlin is a "Gold Oskar" winner!
http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/22/index.htm [compu-technics.com]
Not to mention a "World Genius"!!!
http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/18/index.htm [compu-technics.com]
Steven Glass is back! (Score:2)
Seriously - how did this get posted as a Slashdot story?
If we're talking about hard news I know of several relations of deposed-dictators of third world countries with approximately US$24,500,000 each that needs to be transferred to my personal bank account for which I will be handsomely rewarded. I keep all these e-mails in a folder marked 'spam', but I don't mind telling my friends it's 100% genu
Also... (Score:3, Funny)
No Seriously,
lol
Re:Funny (Score:2, Informative)
Can windows xp even recognize 1TB ram?
Hell no, it can't. The limit for 32-bit is 4 GB, and the limit for 64-bit is 128 GB.
In short, it can't even come close to recognizing that amount of physical memory. The article is complete and utter bullshit. Slashdot is dumber for having posted it as 'news', and we are all dumber for having read it.
Re:Funny (Score:2)
Re:Funny (Score:2)
Yes, I was referring to the limitations of Windows XP Pro/Home and Windows XP 64-bit edition, respectively. Thanks for the clarification.
Re:Very Funny (Score:3, Informative)
Yeah, but an actual 64-bit processor is not capable using 16 exabytes of memory. AFAIK, both x86-64 platforms (amd opteron/athlon64 and intel's ripoffs) are limited in silicon to addressing 1TB of physical RAM. Operating system support can of course push this number lower. The kernel shipping with SuSE Enterprise Linux on an Opteron can address up to 512GB.
Re:Very Funny (Score:5, Informative)
Now, the AMD64 chips can *AT MINIMUM* address 1TB, b/c they use 40 and 48-bit addressing.
Re:Yeah right (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Yeah right (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yeah right (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yeah right (Score:3, Informative)
We have a couple VMWare servers here with Xeons on Windows 2003 that have 32GB of memory, and they run fine. Currently, VMWare on 32-bit windows only supports 3700MB RAM per VM, though.
PAE does slow things down quite a bit though, so it'll be one of the huge advantages to going x86-64 in the near future.
Re:Yeah right (Score:5, Informative)
Some current DRAM controllers have a 40-bit address, so Windows could do the shift and add ((segment << 8) + offset) of two 32-bit registers to get the 40-bit address.
Again, just a guess, but this has been done before.
Re:Yeah right (Score:3, Insightful)
But... (Score:3, Insightful)
Y'know, I've seen Linux run on a washing machine. I've even seen Linux run on a toaster, but I ain't never seen Linux run on no phantom Atomchip laptop.