Nanotube Non-Volatile Memory Entering Production 242
hovermike writes "Nantero and LSI Logic are expected to announce that nanotube non-volatile memory will be going into production, at least as far as the NY Times is concerned. Nanotubes have been discussed previously, Nanotube Applications..., and Buckminsterfullerene..., but I'm certainly surprised something like this has moved into production this quickly. Could this be the ultimate 'bubble' memory?" Reader hovermike writes "The press release can be found at the Nantero website. I'm looking forward to only needing one memory card to store all the 5Mbit pictures that I'll take for the rest of my life."
Great (Score:3, Interesting)
Does anyone have more data on this?
Quickly? (Score:5, Interesting)
Another new memory (Score:5, Interesting)
I wouldn't mind this in my PDA (Score:4, Interesting)
More details please (Score:4, Interesting)
Toxicity? (Score:5, Interesting)
How long before... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:what about it's environmental effects (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Quickly? (Score:3, Interesting)
Vaporware? Not on LSI Logic site (Score:4, Interesting)
Nantero isn't publicly held, though, so this isn't a stock hype.
Re:Great (Score:3, Interesting)
If only ... (Score:5, Interesting)
but alas, what will more likely happen is 'consumericans' and other dis-world orders will 'drive the demand' up for super hi-res video, and we'll all be having HDTV Home Video dumps to sony-marketed 'nano-bricks'
things will just get 'prettier' and 'waaay bigger', the functions will stay the same
Re:Great (Score:4, Interesting)
Space elevators, ultracheap rockets, massive bridges, giant skyscrapers.... here we come! (ok, perhaps not that fast... but it's a good start.
Publicly held...sort of! (Score:3, Interesting)
So while not a pure play on a single stock, it can still suffer from some of the volatility generated in the market environment.
Re:Because (Score:4, Interesting)
Accordingly, I expect Slashdot to receive a subpoena shortly to determine who the above poster is -- Because he has now violated the DMCA by "bypassing an encyption technology" !
Yippee! A new revenue stream for Nantero !!!
Re:Press release, sans PDF (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Space is never enough (Score:1, Interesting)
That would be a good use for really cheap, dense, portable low-power memory. (And no, I didn't RTFA yet.)
Re:what about it's environmental effects (Score:4, Interesting)
How about current computer components? There's plenty of toxic stuff already in your computer -- the trick, as it has always been, will be: don't leave it in the environment, don't snort it, don't eat it.
If you can handle that with current computers, you're probably good to go for nanotubular memory.
First Post: Redundant? (Score:0, Interesting)
Moderation +5
70% Informative
20% Redundant
10% Insightful
It's a first post! (And yes, I'm kinda proud of that, for some twisted reason.) How can a first post be "Redundant"? And it looks like at least two moderators thought so. Strange... wish I got a moderation report for anonymous posts so I could count the votes.
Here's another one: how can a repost of a company press release be "Insightful"? But I'll grant the mods a pass for that simple mistake... and if someone will finally give me mod points, I might even quit whining!
Nanotubes not ready for prime time (Score:1, Interesting)
Progress is being made such as at IBM, hence the commercial interest, but it's not particularly close to being ready for prime time. Basically nobody knows hot to get nanotubes in the right place other than by "hand" with an AFM and nothing less will get you a transistor for memory.