IBM's racetrack memory dashing towards commercialization

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]

[Mark @ Apr 11th 2008 8:39AM]

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[Anonymoose @ Apr 11th 2008 8:44AM]

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[x20mar @ Apr 11th 2008 10:14AM]

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[JLTate @ Apr 11th 2008 10:49AM]

nerd

Well... probably!

[NHAnimator @ Apr 11th 2008 8:43AM]

"available in around a decade"?

Sheesh. Maybe I'll have some installed in my flying car.

[RickyRik @ Apr 11th 2008 8:43AM]

What no holographic storage???

[Anonymoose @ Apr 11th 2008 8:43AM]

so this means i can finally run vista?

[Hein @ Apr 11th 2008 8:48AM]

10 Years! Wake me up when we get there ;)

[Jordan @ Apr 11th 2008 9:06AM]

whoa don't get me wrong, but is it me or does the engadget site keep changing every time I look at it? :P

[UKNigel @ Apr 11th 2008 10:51AM]

Yes, so please stop looking at it. I can't stand it when it keeps changing like this.

[BigBloke @ Apr 11th 2008 9:19AM]

...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

[Wwhat @ Apr 11th 2008 9:44AM]

It's the heaven your goldfish went to?

[Samurai Jack @ Apr 11th 2008 9:59AM]

Bah humbug! This sounds a lot like bubble memory to me. And that idea has been around for what? 40 years?

[Devero @ Apr 11th 2008 11:20AM]

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...

[Stem $ell @ Apr 11th 2008 10:01AM]

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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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[Technex @ Apr 11th 2008 11:09AM]

I'm not even going to pretend I know on how they are going to make that...!

[RijilV @ Apr 11th 2008 11:33AM]

wow that video was cheesy

[ScooterDe @ Apr 11th 2008 4:35PM]

I expect that video to be making teens laugh in the 2030s

[zeromecha @ Apr 11th 2008 11:34AM]

Yes, but can it CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK?

[Wwhat @ Apr 11th 2008 11:49AM]

Hmm, eclectic humour?

[SoreThumb @ Apr 11th 2008 12:47PM]

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!

[cubiclegangsta @ Apr 11th 2008 2:24PM]

Um. Did I just hear that man say "less moving parts"? WTF?

[miko34 @ Apr 11th 2008 2:54PM]

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.

[dzhiurgis @ Apr 11th 2008 5:01PM]

However, I'm pretty sure It Will Blend.

[cocaine nosejob @ Apr 16th 2008 1:51PM]

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