Nanotube Memory Finally Beats Flash For Speed 86
holy_calamity writes "Although flash memory that stores each bit on a single nanotube has been tinkered with in the lab for years, it has always been much slower than the devices in use today. A Finnish team has now cracked that, demonstrating single bits of nanotube memory that can be written in just 100 nanoseconds. Existing flash memory takes tens of microseconds."
PETA won't like this at all.... (Score:3, Interesting)
I can already see the craigslist ads..."Wanted: Computer geek to come snake out my RAM."
Nantero... (Score:3, Interesting)
What ever happened to Nantero? Weren't working on this a few years ago?
Not there yet... (Score:3, Interesting)
How much latency does that algorithm add? They are only testing one bit. Won't a controller and the wear-reducing slow it down a fair amount?
Still a ways to go:
"The next challenge is to join an array together into a working memory chip, as the team has so far only tested single carbon nanotube elements. And although they have only proved capable of "remembering" data for several days after the power is cut, the team are confident this can be extended."
Several days is a pretty short life for SSD...and longer than i want my RAM to last ;)
Luxury! (Score:4, Interesting)
100s of nanoseconds? Luxury! When I were young you had to store your data as sound pulses in a tube full o' mercury. You had to wait 100s of milliseconds for the pulse to reach the other end. Tell that to kids nowadays, they won't believe you.