[HN Gopher] A Paradigm Shift in RAM
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A Paradigm Shift in RAM
Author : andsoitis
Score : 11 points
Date : 2024-04-27 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.popularmechanics.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.popularmechanics.com)
| tuatoru wrote:
| Lab experiment, sounds unmanufacturable.
| deely3 wrote:
| Every tech around us was lab experiment once.
| noworld wrote:
| It's not about the lab experiments that became tech, it's
| about all the ones that never did.
| hinkley wrote:
| I don't have a problem with 'lab experiment' I have a problem
| with infeasibility to take out of the lab, which is
| troubling.
| ranger_danger wrote:
| I'm no physicist or anything, but aren't light waves
| electromagnetic? Can someone ELI5 how this is fundamentally
| different from say, a magnetizer/demagnetizer like what we
| already have?
| felsokning wrote:
| I, too, am no physicist -- but from what I can discern from the
| article, they're using the light (presumably, the quanta - or
| photon) to change the polarity (the light, here, acting as the
| magnetizer/demagnetizer via spin).
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| This would, in theory, remove the limitations of signaling via
| copper or the like, which produces the limiting speeds of
| current RAM implementations.
| Agingcoder wrote:
| The website is very painful to read, with elements appearing or
| disappearing whether you scroll up or down. It was so distracting
| that I had to stop reading, in spite of my really wanting to
| understand what was written.
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