Words and memories

[unixronin]

MRAM and nanotubes:  MRAM is expected to start hitting the market in quantity Any Time Now, from Motorola among others.  It's fast, non-volatile and radiation-hard, which will make it attractive for instant-on computing and for space and military applications.  Several different companies are also bringing to market holographic storage aimed at replacing DVDs, with up to 50 times the capacity of a DVD, and Nantero of Woburn, MA is pushing to market with NRAM.  Based on carbon nanotubes, NRAM is fast, high-density, non-volatile, low-power, and radiation-hard; Nantero demonstrated a functioning 10GB NRAM array this year.  Other upcoming memory technologies include ovonic memory (thin-film storage, described as non-volatile, high-density, cheap and "reasonably fast", being backed by Intel and British Aerospace among others), molecular memory being developed by Zettacore in Denver, and IBM's Millipede MEMS memory.  NanoMarkets projects these and similar technologies will have 40% of the combined memory and disk market by 2011.

Speaking of IBM, Big Blue just followed up its open-sourcing and donation to the Apache Foundation of the Cloudscape database engine by open-sourcing (and donating to Apache) of their Reusable Dialog Components, building blocks for speech recognition.  IBM is also donating speech markup editors to the Eclipse Foundation.

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

The podiatrist seems to feel that we've done pretty much everything that can be done, short of cloning technology advancing to the point of being able to grow me a new foot (or a whole new leg from the knee down, really).

Just one more way in which my life has gone to shit.

[persimmon.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that - this particular bad patch has just gone on way too long for you.