when will MRAM or protein memory or FMD be available?

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On 26 Aug 2003 08:36:09 -0700
according to this article magnetic ram is coming soon
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,83987,00.html

has anyone heard anything else about this coming out?

it would be great to turn on a PC or table or notebook and have
instant on, like PDAs do

also has anyone heard anything about protein memory or
Bacteriorhodopsin
which supposedly can store 1 terrabyte on media the size of a
sugarcube?

or fmd (fluorescent multilayer disc) which stores 100 GB on a disc the
size of a CD?
Click to expand...

Try googling those and you'll likely find all you want to know. But the
bottom line is "believe it when you see it on the shelf at CompUSA".
There have been new miraculous storage technologies that were going to
make disk and semiconductor RAM obsolete for as long as I can remember.
So far by the time they've gotten to market improvements in disk and RAM
technology have made disk and RAM larger and cheaper.

Motorola at one time claimed that they were going to have
magnetic RAM in production some time this year. There isn't all that
much left of this year and no products so far. The largest demonstrated
device at the moment appears to be 128 K (not meg) so don't hold your
breath.

The bacteriorhodopsin memory appears to be a variation of holographic
memory--the 1 terabyte claim appears to have been made in a white paper
put out by Biofold Corporation, which does not appear to have much else
in the way of assets--they may or may not come up with something. It
looks promising on paper but so does hot fusion. In any case, it's not
something that you're going to see any time soon.

FMD was supposed to be shipped 2 years ago by Constellation 3D, which
appears to have taken the venture capital and run, in any case they have
not been heard from in several years.
 
according to this article magnetic ram is coming soon
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,83987,00.html

has anyone heard anything else about this coming out?

it would be great to turn on a PC or table or notebook and have
instant on, like PDAs do

also has anyone heard anything about protein memory or
Bacteriorhodopsin
which supposedly can store 1 terrabyte on media the size of a
sugarcube?

or fmd (fluorescent multilayer disc) which stores 100 GB on a disc the
size of a CD?
 
J.Clarke said:
But the bottom line is "believe it when you see it on the shelf
at CompUSA". There have been new miraculous storage
technologies that were going to make disk and semiconductor
RAM obsolete for as long as I can remember. So far by the
time they've gotten to market improvements in disk and RAM
technology have made disk and RAM larger and cheaper.
Click to expand...


Tell me about it! Ever hear of Ramtron? Since the mid-
1980s, they were going to revolutionize PC memories with a
ferroelectric non-volatile memory that doesn't require power
to maintain state - IOW, no bootup required - just turn it off
when you're done, and turn it back on when you want to
continue. (See http://www.ramtron.com/aboutfram/technology.htm)
Well, they have product and it is being used in various things,
but it's not "on the shelf at CompUSA". There's a long hard
march from concept to consumer, and the way is paved with
thousands of old barber shop magazine articles.


*TimDaniels*
 
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