NCSU's Fingernail-Size Chip Can Hold 1TB 227
CWmike writes "Engineers from North Carolina State University have created a new fingernail-size chip that can hold 1 trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data. They said their nanostructured Ni-MgO system can store up to 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, 'far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.' Using the process of selective doping, in which an impurity is added to a material whose properties consequently change, the engineers worked at nanoscale and added metal nickel to magnesium oxide, a ceramic. The resulting material contained clusters of nickel atoms no bigger than 10 square nanometers — a pinhead has a diameter of 1 million nanometers. The discovery represents a 90% size reduction compared with today's techniques, and an advancement that could boost computer storage capacity. 'Instead of making a chip that stores 20 gigabytes, you have one that can handle one terabyte, or 50 times more data,' said the team's leader, Jagdish 'Jay' Narayan, director of the National Science Foundation Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures at the university."
Finger nail-sized chip? (Score:5, Funny)
Are we talking in units of man hands or lady hands?
Dang it! (Score:4, Funny)
damn (Score:2, Funny)
that is tiny. :D
If that had been available earlier this year, I wouldv had it implanted
Re:Finger nail-sized chip? (Score:5, Funny)
Mama was apparently wrong about nailbyting.
Re:damn (Score:3, Funny)
Implanted? Just like that? Are you one of these people [xkcd.com]? ;)
Re:Finger nail-sized chip? (Score:5, Funny)
I asked a female co-worker to help me compare, and she obliged......by flipping me off. At least I got a good look at her nail. The things we nerds endure for science.
Re:What is the ETA? (Score:3, Funny)
Don't worry, all flying cars will have at least one. Further, the next version of Duke Nukem will ship on such a chip.
Re:Trollin'. (Score:0, Funny)
1000000000000 b / 640 kb
That's enough for over 1.5 million people!!
Re:Dang it! (Score:3, Funny)
I just bleach my shaded albums.
Wait!!! (Score:5, Funny)
can store up to 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text
Wait, how many Libraries of Congress is that??? Now I'm totally confused, you keep switching the units on me!
On second thoughts, it can probably store 1 copy of Windows 8.
The good news (Score:5, Funny)
It will be commercially available by January. The bad news is, this is a write only memory device.
Re:There is no chip. (Score:5, Funny)
Two better words: Huge tits.
I even re-used a lot of your letters...
Re:Finger nail-sized chip? (Score:4, Funny)
The Trim Command works much better as it doesn't fragment the file system as badly as nailbyting does. So no, mama wasn't wrong
Re:There is no chip. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Finger nail-sized chip? (Score:5, Funny)
That reminds me of a true story.
A few years ago I received my first PDA phone. It was HTC through AT&T and it did have a camera. I went through the office asking people for a picture for my phone. Explaining that when they dialed me, I could see their picture instead of the phone number. I went through about 20 offices and cubicles on my break to get those pictures.
They ALL GAVE ME THE FINGER. Every single one of those comical bastards. No prompting, No hesitation. It was, "Can I get a picture of you for my phone?". They all turned around and flipped me off. Women as well as men.
Even the owner of the company was there that day. He flipped me off too.
Could it have been me? Nah.
Re:The good news (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finger nail-sized chip? (Score:5, Funny)
It was memories of the Vista you installed on all PC's.
Re:The good news (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There is no chip. (Score:2, Funny)
In fact, my actual fingernail already contains maybe a petabyte of storage.
You need to wash your hands more often
Bad linux jokes for 1000 (Score:2, Funny)
Contestant: "What is DDRASSRAM?, Alex."
Alex: Painfully correct sir, painfully correct.
Re:Wait!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Which puts this device at around 5.351x10^5 libraries of congress per football field.
Re:Attention Windows Clickarounds (Score:3, Funny)
C:\>head -n 1000000 /dev/random > Windows.com
'head' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
WTF?! It's not working. I tried rebooting, but I got the same problem. Not even running as Administrator helped.
Can you please give me head? You can email me at AnonymousCoward@aol.com.
Also, I'd like to know how you know so much about me, and why you're using my name, and give me some Photoshop tips while you're at it.
Re:There is no chip. (Score:3, Funny)
The resulting storage of 1,000,000 people typing away on slashdot will eventually encode a monkey.