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Hitachi Makes Breakthrough Contributed by Justin [Technology] Tue Feb 17 16:40:30 1998 EST From the rapidly-advancing-society? dept. Hitachi has made a breakthrough of their own, in a different kind of storage. Hitachi announced they have found a way to reduce the number of electrons needed to store a bit of information in a DRAM chip. The 128MB chips should be coming out soon, and will be perfected in the 16GB (*drool*) generation of chips.
Does anyone else get the feeling that we are on the cusp of serious exponential change in technology? I know its been going exponential for a while, but now I'm really starting to feel it. Thats major breakthroughs in two weeks: 1. 170 TB Polymer memory sandwiches (OptiCom) 2. Flat Plastic Video Screens using Light Emitting Polymers "LEPs" (Cambridge) 3. massive DRAMS (Hitachi) ObCrypto: Since polymer transistors seem to be necessary to implement polymer memory, how does this effect computation speed? The polymer transistors must be around 30-40nm and low power. How long until we have Polymer PGA,PALS,CPUs? How fast will they be? Is it time to add a few more bits to the public key? Are there any cipher attacks that would benefit from obscenely large amounts of fast memory? Sorry if this is a naive question to the theorists. Jim