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Monday 11 December 2006, 4:09 PM
Alloy could make chips 500x faster
Exciting news from IBM and partners about a prototype technology that could make memory chips 500 times faster in the future.
It uses a technique where a material named GS can be swapped from an amorphous state to a crystalline one through being heating. In this case, via an electric current.
Your CD writer uses laser beams to store and recover data, but its the same technique, basically.
It's not clear exactly what this mysterious material is made of -- although we do know it contains germanium and antimony. The scientists involved say it has been used to create a switch that is just 3 nanometers high by 20 nanometers wide. At that scale, manufacturers could squeeze gazillions (technically speaking, M'Lud) onto a single chip.
More here.
It uses a technique where a material named GS can be swapped from an amorphous state to a crystalline one through being heating. In this case, via an electric current.
Your CD writer uses laser beams to store and recover data, but its the same technique, basically.
It's not clear exactly what this mysterious material is made of -- although we do know it contains germanium and antimony. The scientists involved say it has been used to create a switch that is just 3 nanometers high by 20 nanometers wide. At that scale, manufacturers could squeeze gazillions (technically speaking, M'Lud) onto a single chip.
More here.
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