[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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