We've all assumed that anything's possible when dabbling in the elusive realm of
spintronics, and it seems as if a team at
NC State University is out to prove just that. While using their newfound free time on Saturdays (you know, given that the football team has quit mid-season), Dr. Jagdish Narayan and company have utilized the process of selective doping in order to construct a new type of metallic ceramic that could be used to create a "fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text." The material could also be used (in theory, anyway) to create a new generation of ceramic engines that could withstand twice the heat of normal engines and hit MPG ratings of 80. Granted, this all sounds like wishful thinking at the moment, but we wouldn't put it past the whiz kids in Raleigh to bring this stuff to market. Too bad the athletic director doesn't posses the same type of initiative.
[Thanks, Joel]
posted Oct 25th 2009 10:57PM
Unfortunately this, like many other technologies, will never see the light of day. I'm still waiting on a decent lithium ion replacement.
From what I understood, I hope it doesn't.
Let me get this straight. Its basically a car engine made out of ceramic that has a computer chip that stores 20 HD-DVDs and give higher MPG?
Yeah. I see articles like this every other month, but it doesn't make the stuff get here any faster.. If it reaches the consumer level at all. Still exciting though.
Ahhh...Charlie Rose. As overrated and overpriced as a Vaio.
*I decided to poke fun at Sony because I doubt its fanboys are as petulant as a certain other group of fruity fanboys.
So much porn...
... so little time.
a "fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs"...
shouldn't that be 10 blu-ray discs?
Also, "Dr. Jagdish Narayan and company have utilized the process of selective doping"... >> How do I get in on one of these 'selective doping' experiments? hmm?
Where do you come up with your material? It's hilarious!
"20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text"
Why obfuscate the storage capacity? I'm sure most people would understand 600 GB just fine.
How much text fits on one of these pages anyway? And how many bits per character?
None of this makes sense to me. Could someone please post how much space this new technology is designed to hold, using Beethoven's 9th Symphony as a unit of measurement?
I scrolled down just to say that.
Anyway, I blame Apple.
That football comment was fully unnecessary. We already know we're better than everyone else and don't need to prove anything, so we just say "why waste the effort?"
haha jk yeah, we suck.
Take it from us - effort or no effort sometimes doesn't really affect whether or not you suck. :(
Say hi to your coach for us.
Yea, I was at the Pitt game this year and really thought that after sitting through that shitty weather during the game we'd actually have a decent season.... Little did I know that Duke and BC would kick our asses. Its so great being a NCSU fan sometimes...
Such is life as an NCSU fan...
Thats some NC State Shit right thurr. When we lost to Duke I cried and wished Justin.tv didnt bring me all the games so I had a reason to avoid the misery. Go pack anyhow.
Haw haw, handegg.
*sips tea*
Werent we promised holographic storage by now, werent quantum computers close behind. All this is nice, and will happen one day or another, but they really need to start being more realistic about the time it will take to be feasible being even most people with only a bare laymens understanstanding now knows it means probably close to a decade at least before any of this technology reaches us.
um, there is a fairly standard unit of measure for describing data capacity: the byte. and if you're not going to use it, then rather than saying "20 high-definition dvds", you might well say "a ginormous amount of stuff".
Research Triangle meet-up?
Hell, I'd cruise in from the OBX for that.
Fire Lee Fowler.
Another Indian, another great invention..
No carbon nanotubes?
I'm sure they're behind the scenes somewhere, seeing as how they're good for just about everything.
I will never understand the American obsession with school/college sports, sometimes to the exclusion of academic achievement.
Simple, College sports are actual competitions. Pro sports have been delegated to be a set of steroid Olympics.
I really had no idea what the athletic director comment had to do with anything either. Just Engadget I suppose. Can't ask for much.
let me get this strait, we will be getting car engines made of computer chips soon?
neato
I feel like flash technology can already accomplish those storage requirements in a similar size-constraint.
See kids, doping can be good!
a computer that can get 80 mpg, about time
Nice picture of a Mac Pro logic board.
This is the future...I'm glad there is another step!!! They developed a Metallic Ceramic material that could withstand twice the heat of aluminum engines.
The original design is for computer chips, since they can't boost the electricity needed to run it. Increasing the Watts would produce a faster processor, but too much power and not enough cooling would melt the chip.
Then since the material has twice the melting point than aluminum...they can use this to create an engine. They could increase the compression to incredibly higher levels, and produce more power! The article said they could make 80 MPG from it! If they combine this technology with the BAM (stronger than Teflon) "oil less technology" then you might be able to see 100 MPG cars.
Looking at things this way...electric cars might be the future or maybe the original gas engine might survive... who knows, but I do know that it'll be better for the environment being that we'll use less oil and burn fewer gasoline!
you just went off on a tangent, either that or youre on some crazy shit... humor FAIL!
imdaillest:
Comments on engadget don't always have to be funnies. (just most of the time)
"(you know, given that the football team has quit mid-season)"
Nice one. Roll Tide.
From the NCSU article, here's a number I hope we can all embrace:
“Instead of making a chip that stores 20 gigabytes, you have one that can handle one terabyte, or 50 times more data,” Narayan says.
Thank you, Darren. At this point, the blame for our athletic suckyness needs to fall squarely on the shoulders of Lee Fowler. GET RID OF HIM!!
Does "Dr. Jagdish Narayan" really sound like someone who watches a lot of football?