A Billion & Counting

For forty years, computer scientist's have longed for reliable memory able to stand the test of time. Looks like they may have it if this tiny tech scales to real world proportions.

"When it comes to data storage, density and durability have always moved in opposite directions - the greater the density the shorter the durability. For example, information carved in stone is not dense but can last thousands of years, whereas today’s silicon memory chips can hold their information for only a few decades. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have smashed this tradition with a new memory storage medium that can pack thousands of times more data into one square inch of space than conventional chips and preserve this data for more than a billion years!"

Rust never sleeps. - Neil Young

Neither does tech - RM