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House Payments and Memory Chips
by Andrew McCaskey
It’s Sort of Relative
Engineers from North Carolina State University have created a new fingernail-size chip that can hold 1 trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data. The nanostructured Nickel Magnesium Oxide Ni-MgO system can store up to 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text.
Using selective doping at nanoscale and adds the 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.
If you are like me, in a few years you can tell your grandchildren about 8k DRAM boards from the 1970’s that set you back the cost of a house payment. They may find that mildly amusing, or they may not – and take their keychain with the 1TB drive off to plug into their electric car.
You can rest assured that electric car will be several house payments.
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