Give the whiners something else to add to their list of things the iPhone has to have before they would even consider EVER purchasing an iPhone: ....
Oh... and it has to be available in Canada..
Hey, don't ridicule our poor friends to the north. They deserve an official unlimited- data iPhone as much as anyone in the USA or Europe. Besides, they have Vancouver BC, which is like a much-improved, cleaner, prettier, friendlier, and more progressive Seattle.
In 10 years I guess NAND flash memories will be 10 fold and this won't seem immediately fantastic when it comes out. But everything that has 3D and micro electronics mentioned in the same sentence gotta be good, right? I wonder what Apple would say if they announced products 10 years in advance...
Haha. I just rode my mountain bike by there today at lunchtime. I didn't see anything going on from the outside that would indicate that miraculous things are happening in this standard looking office complex nestled in the hills south of San Jose.
(I'm just carping on people who visit Silicon Valley--especially the Apple campus--and expect to see dollar bills floating in the air, engineers jumping from branch to branch in trees, rainbows sprouting from office doors, VCs running around in BMWs handing out cash at the Jack in the Box drive-thrus.)
Invariably, they return home and report to their friends that "Silicon Valley sucks, it's just a bunch of buildings." Honestly, what does one expect?
Go ahead: Chime in with your response of what you would expect to see in a place dubbed Silicon Valley.
Either you're staved for click-throughs or you're trying to pump your Apple stock so that you can cash out before the market collapse. I feel ripped off by the headline; there are any number of "in the next 10 years" technologies that would have fit the topic but would have been equally misleading. As if ten years from now we wouldn't expect a tenfold increase.
I went from a desktop to a laptop in about 5 years and got a 20-fold increase.
In the next 10 years, storage will have increased tenfold anyway. This 'new' idea isn't so hot.
And this IBM technology is HOW it will be done, dingus.
As for this story... I guess AppleInsider is trying to get the inside scoop... ten years in advance. Real useful. I bet the iPhone won't even exist at that point.
Massive storage sounds good. However, currently massive storage will face problems on content management/access, processors speed, etc. Within the next ten years, other advances in technology will make this technology viable.
The timeframe is a little disappointing ... but it still is a very neat future. Though, 10 years in a digital age is a very long time, something will probably replace it by the time it is ready for a debut. Everyone is saying iPhone and iPods ... But what about notebooks?? That is where I think this kind of technology really could help more so that on an iPod or iPhone. Ultra low power consumption, high data transfer and write rates ... very good combinations for a notebook. It'd be better than an SSD drive and probably a lot smaller. If IBM hopes it to work, they better step up their efforts and bring it within 4-6 years max, otherwise, it might be doomed for replacement by another company.
Check out the googles ads that this story attracted:
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I can't decide which would be fun to learn about, the military use of composite nanofibers or "moving wafers around the world." I bet this story generates a TON of click-thrus for both.
The timeframe is a little disappointing ... but it still is a very neat future. Though, 10 years in a digital age is a very long time, something will probably replace it by the time it is ready for a debut. Everyone is saying iPhone and iPods ... But what about notebooks?? That is where I think this kind of technology really could help more so that on an iPod or iPhone. Ultra low power consumption, high data transfer and write rates ... very good combinations for a notebook. It'd be better than an SSD drive and probably a lot smaller. If IBM hopes it to work, they better step up their efforts and bring it within 4-6 years max, otherwise, it might be doomed for replacement by another company.
I wonder if it means 10x as much memory per memory cell. Then that would be interesting. I really don't understand the concept though.
The wikipedia article confirmed what my first thought was, seeing the Thread headline... It is indeed a refresh of the Bubble Memory concept, which had chips available in the late 70-ies. Given the fact that the idea was born in the 60-ies, first chips available about 10 years later, and now we have 2008, the 10-year estimate is probably accurate.
Comments
10g
7.3TB racetrack memory
Neural "Handsfree" Interface
Will play Crysis at 170fps
Makes coffee in the morning
Might let them get lucky with a human female...
You forgot to mention that it needs to run Windows 7 too.
Great!
Give the whiners something else to add to their list of things the iPhone has to have before they would even consider EVER purchasing an iPhone: ....
Oh... and it has to be available in Canada..
Hey, don't ridicule our poor friends to the north. They deserve an official unlimited- data iPhone as much as anyone in the USA or Europe. Besides, they have Vancouver BC, which is like a much-improved, cleaner, prettier, friendlier, and more progressive Seattle.
In 10 years I guess NAND flash memories will be 10 fold and this won't seem immediately fantastic when it comes out. But everything that has 3D and micro electronics mentioned in the same sentence gotta be good, right? I wonder what Apple would say if they announced products 10 years in advance...
Haha. I just rode my mountain bike by there today at lunchtime. I didn't see anything going on from the outside that would indicate that miraculous things are happening in this standard looking office complex nestled in the hills south of San Jose.
(I'm just carping on people who visit Silicon Valley--especially the Apple campus--and expect to see dollar bills floating in the air, engineers jumping from branch to branch in trees, rainbows sprouting from office doors, VCs running around in BMWs handing out cash at the Jack in the Box drive-thrus.)
Invariably, they return home and report to their friends that "Silicon Valley sucks, it's just a bunch of buildings." Honestly, what does one expect?
Go ahead: Chime in with your response of what you would expect to see in a place dubbed Silicon Valley.
Great story!
You forgot to mention that it needs to run Windows 7 too.
Right... Running Crysis at 170fps is far more obtainable that trying to run Windows 7. You need to have realistic expectations buddy...
This is cool news, I guess well have wikipesia in our pocket soon! (as if we don't already!)
http://collison.ie/wikipedia-iphone/
Ba dum pish!
It's great, rarely crashes too
Great!
Give the whiners something else to add to their list of things the iPhone has to have before they would even consider EVER purchasing an iPhone:
10g
7.3TB racetrack memory
Neural "Handsfree" Interface
Will play Crysis at 170fps
Makes coffee in the morning
Might let them get lucky with a human female...
yeah yeah, no problem
Oh... and it has to be available in Canada..
OH for goodness sake thats just SO unrealistic in a ten year time frame!
I went from a desktop to a laptop in about 5 years and got a 20-fold increase.
You're a little late for April fool's day.
We have been saying OLED for nearly a decade and yet we are still no where near being mass produced.
So RaceTrack, or PRAM... what ever.... will properly be another 10 + years....
In the next 10 years, storage will have increased tenfold anyway. This 'new' idea isn't so hot.
And this IBM technology is HOW it will be done, dingus.
As for this story... I guess AppleInsider is trying to get the inside scoop... ten years in advance. Real useful. I bet the iPhone won't even exist at that point.
/sarcasm
hey guys I was just gonna upgrade my iThingy but now I wonder should I hold out for the racetracks?
/sarcasm
If you really like racetracks, go to a NASCAR event.
1: Military Armor Protection
New functional composite nanofibers
Conference May 20-21, Alexandria
2: Wafer Carriers
Wafer handling solutions
Moving wafers around the world
3: Windows Mobile Games
Guitar Hero, Call of Duty and more
for Windows Mobile at Winplay.com
I can't decide which would be fun to learn about, the military use of composite nanofibers or "moving wafers around the world." I bet this story generates a TON of click-thrus for both.
The timeframe is a little disappointing ... but it still is a very neat future. Though, 10 years in a digital age is a very long time, something will probably replace it by the time it is ready for a debut. Everyone is saying iPhone and iPods ... But what about notebooks?? That is where I think this kind of technology really could help more so that on an iPod or iPhone. Ultra low power consumption, high data transfer and write rates ... very good combinations for a notebook. It'd be better than an SSD drive and probably a lot smaller. If IBM hopes it to work, they better step up their efforts and bring it within 4-6 years max, otherwise, it might be doomed for replacement by another company.
I wonder if it means 10x as much memory per memory cell. Then that would be interesting. I really don't understand the concept though.
Here you go:
Racetrack memory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_memory
The wikipedia article confirmed what my first thought was, seeing the Thread headline... It is indeed a refresh of the Bubble Memory concept, which had chips available in the late 70-ies. Given the fact that the idea was born in the 60-ies, first chips available about 10 years later, and now we have 2008, the 10-year estimate is probably accurate.
Manfred (a.k. a. Q-chan)