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This is cool. Put the power of an Xbox or PS3 in a hand-held one day.]]>Sep 18th 2007 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/Sep 18th 2007 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/Sep 18th 2007 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/Sep 18th 2007 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/Sep 18th 2007 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/Sep 18th 2007 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/Sep 18th 2007 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/Sep 18th 2007 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/Sep 18th 2007 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/
Write speed and longevity sound great, but otherwise call us when you've got the 'extremely low power consumption' down a few orders of magnitude, U Penn dude.]]>Sep 18th 2007 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/18/nanowires-developed-to-retrieve-data-on-the-double/
0.7 mW/bit * 1 bit * 50 ns = 0,000000000035 joules = 0.035 nanojoules.

In other words, writing a single bit takes very little energy. So lets see how much energy it would take to write a whole gigabyte:

0.035 nJ * 8 * 1024^3 = 300647710.72 nJ = 0.3 J.

So with just one joule of energy, you could write over 3 gigabytes of data. Of course, if you tried to write all those bits simultaneously, the peak power requirement would be huge.

Anyway, a modern hard drive consumes something like 10 Watts (10 joules per second) during write operations. The difference between that and this new tech is incredible.]]>Sep 19th 2007 9:40AM