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Yahoo MyWebA six Terrabyte iPod?
Imagine an iPod that can store more than one hundred feature-length films, every song produced within the last decade and an entire library full of audio books... Overwhelming? Yes. Impossible? No.
racetrack memory
IBM researcher Stuart Parkins is working on a new form of memory, called “racetrack memory” that may allow electronic devices to potentially hold up to 100 times more data in the same amount of space. Mr. Parkin thinks he is poised to bring about a breakthrough that could increase the amount of data stored on a chip or a hard drive by a factor of a hundred. If he proves successful in his quest, he will create a “universal” computer memory, one that can potentially replace dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, and flash memory chips, and even make a “disk drive on a chip” possible.
The ramifications of this are astounding. Imagine never needing a separate cpu. Everything on a desktop computer could be contained within the monitor, and the monitor itself could potentially become much thinner. Laptop computers likewise will become much thinner and lighter weight and could potentially store (in text format) every book on Amazon.com. A digital camera could take and store months worth of videos and pictures without ever running out of capacity.
Developers will jump at the opportunity to create larger, more robust applications that will change the face of computing as we know it.
wow. It seems Kryder's Law is putting Moore's law to shame!