Computers could be 100,000 times faster with racetrack memory! - Polidicks

[QUOTE=aVoN;26197906]Happens everyday, but not every new invention reaches the masses. I give this technology 5 to 10 years before it reaches a state where it can be used.[/QUOTE] doesn't it ususally go to the military first?

Only if the military pays more.

[QUOTE=imawerewol;26187219]What's with all the awesome technological and scientific stuff going on lately?[/QUOTE] Accelerating returns. The first great singularity is near [QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;26198293]doesn't it ususally go to the military first?[/QUOTE] Yeah. It shouldn't be like this.

[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;26187790]What computer these days takes 3 minutes to boot up? Mine takes 50 seconds and that's without a SSD.[/QUOTE] 50/100000=0,0005 Fucking amazing bootup times.

[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;26193044]computers used by 60 year olds who've had the same os installation for the past 10 years[/QUOTE] My grandmothers computer is about 3 years off the 10 year mark with the same OS and it doesn't even take 3 mins to boot. Granted, once it gets to the desktop it takes a few minutes to get it's shit together.

My laptop boots in 25 seconds GG. [QUOTE=Ond kaja;26199326]50/100000=0,0005 Fucking amazing bootup times.[/QUOTE] Not going to happen. The system is as fast as it's slowest component, so until everything is faster, your system will be slower than that.

finalyl i cn play half-life!!

The article says that IBM is aiming to make them commercially available in the next 5-7 years. Hopefully, this is accurate, but I wouldn't be surprised if it took around 10 years.

[QUOTE=gerbile5;26199395]3 years off the 10 year mark[/QUOTE] otherwise known as 7 years

[QUOTE=Raiskauskone V2;26197024]Someone fucking call those scientist and ask when will be getting these so we'd have an offical source of when they will be released, [b]because waiting like this without knowing [I]anything[/I] is frustrating as hell.[/b][/QUOTE] [img]http://www.vgboxart.com/boxes/PC/29994_half_life_2_episode_3-v2.jpg[/img]

:20bux: says this is going to cost over $1000

My kids are probably going to be bitching at me about why they're computers are so slow. And I will respond with "Used to have to wait 2 minutes to start up my computer... consider yourselves lucky"

I predict that in 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them.

Wonder how much this stuff will cost

[QUOTE=Drainwater;26213233]I predict that in 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them.[/QUOTE] This is like...the opposite of what is happening breh

The main bottleneck of a computer's loading time is the storage medium, which is typically a hard drive.

I'm wondering if this will hold as much space as traditional harddrives, or more

[QUOTE=Killoch0;26188773]Fucking hell. I chose a bad time to take computer science in university. Everything we are learning now will be completely obsolete inside 10 years.[/QUOTE] To be fair, it's honestly going to happen to anyone who studies Computer Science with the current rate of advancement.

Eventually you will be able to press the power button on your computer and the login screen will instantly come up. That would be awesome.

I kinda figured this would happen some day. We're still using methods for computers that people back in the days of computers that took up whole rooms used. All of this nano technology (insert solid snake face here) is bound to change all of that sooner or later. Probably later though, this tech is still just theoretical stuff.

Man, the future is gonna be awesome. At least in computing anyway.

[QUOTE=power-mad;26215004]I kinda figured this would happen some day. We're still using methods for computers that people back in the days of computers that took up whole rooms used. All of this nano technology (insert solid snake face here) is bound to change all of that sooner or later. Probably later though, this tech is still just theoretical stuff.[/QUOTE] Actually, this memory is sort of retro. Back in the day, they actually stored data by sending it through a converting it into a mechanical wave, and sending it through a long tube full of "stuff" that had a slow speed of sound, like mercury. This was slow (a few hundred microseconds to access) and couldn't store much (a few K on a supercomputer-sized machine), but it was better than punch card access. If I'm understanding things correctly, racetrack memory works much the same way, only with actual electrons and a loop only a few nanometers across. Most likely, each loop would store a single byte or nybble, and each chip would have billions of loops for rapid access. Note that racetrack memory only seems to be faster than hard drives and SSDs, not RAM. If Wikipedia is correct, DRAM can be as fast a 6 nanoseconds, while racetrack memory isn't expected to exceed 20 nanoseconds.

[QUOTE=Tetracycline;26213442]This is like...the opposite of what is happening breh[/QUOTE] I was quoting the Simpsons. I'm sorry everyone took it seriously.

This isn't news, it was in several decent physics papers some months ago, maybe a year. You neglected to mention how it's also awesome because it can store data in a three dimensional matrix, rather than the usual doped 2d layers.