IBM's racetrack memory dashing towards commercialization
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 11th 2008 8:28AM
posted Apr 11th 2008 8:28AM
So, how do you go about impressing the world after busting out a few systems based around the "fastest chip on Earth?" By getting us all worked up for a little thing called racetrack memory, that's how. Far from being the first memory technology that runs laps around the DIMMs we're relying on today, IBM researchers are suggesting that this iteration could enable users to store substantially more data at a lower cost and be available in around a decade. Put simply, the gurus working the project have discovered a way to overcome the prohibitively expensive process of manipulating domain walls in magnetic storage, essentially making a long-standing approach entirely more viable. If you're totally in nerd heaven right now, we assure you, checking out the explanatory video waiting after the jump is a must-do.[Via BBC]
"available in around a decade"?
Sheesh. Maybe I'll have some installed in my flying car.
What no holographic storage???
so this means i can finally run vista?
10 Years! Wake me up when we get there ;)
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whoa don't get me wrong, but is it me or does the engadget site keep changing every time I look at it? :P
Yes, so please stop looking at it. I can't stand it when it keeps changing like this.
...just a semantics question here, how can you be submerged in heaven? I would have thought it was more like 'up in heaven' or floating or some such thing.
Well, by the time this tech comes through, it will be just in time for Windows 7
It's the heaven your goldfish went to?
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"...have discovered a way to overcome the prohibitively expensive process of manipulating domain walls in magnetic storage..."
Does that mean they've stumbled upon a cure for, er... Wallsheimer's?
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Bah humbug! This sounds a lot like bubble memory to me. And that idea has been around for what? 40 years?
The idea age of 40 years ago and actually having the technology available made in recent Nano-tech is a big Difference. :)
Just like the Idea of flying cars many years ago(and today)and actually have the technology to do it is two completely timelines...
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Well... probably!
I'm not even going to pretend I know on how they are going to make that...!
wow that video was cheesy
I expect that video to be making teens laugh in the 2030s
Yes, but can it CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK?
Hmm, eclectic humour?
IBM, I will give you as much blood and money as you want if I can buy this stuff by the end of the year at slightly-above DIMM price.
It doesn't even have to be my own blood!
Um. Did I just hear that man say "less moving parts"? WTF?
Okay... which planet is this from and why don't they ship it next week? I still don't know how a disc of vinyl records sound.
However, I'm pretty sure It Will Blend.
Can you say nano- wire.....nano- wire.........nano- wire????? Or how about nano- wire? And wtf @ 1:14?!?!?!?!?
Fookin' nerds! 10 years??????? I'm gunna hold out and keep this "classic" iPod