By Soulskill from
Slashdot's still-waiting-on-my-isolinear-chips department:
Lucas123 writes:
Nantero, the company that invented carbon nanotube-based non-volatile memory in 2001 and has been developing it since, has announced that seven chip fabrication plants are now manufacturing its Nano-RAM (NRAM) wafers and test chips. The company also announced aerospace giant Lockheed Martin and Schlumberger Ltd., the world's largest gas and oil exploration and drilling company, as customers seeking to use its chip technology. The memory, which can withstand 300 degrees Celsius temperatures for years without losing data, is natively thousands of times faster than NAND flash and has virtually infinite read/write resilience. Nantero plans on creating gum sticks SSDs using DDR4 interfaces. NRAM has the potential to create memory that is vastly more dense that NAND flash, as its transistors can shrink to below 5 nanometers in size, three times more dense than today's densest NAND flash. At the same time, NRAM is up against a robust field of new memory technologies that are expected to challenge NAND flash in speed, endurance and capacity, such as Phase-Change Memory and Ferroelectric RAM (FRAM).Read Replies (0)
By Roblimo from
Slashdot's parting-with-a-cable-company-is-such-sweet-sorrow department:
On May 29,
Steven J. Vaughan Nichols (known far and wide as SJVN) wrote an article for ZDNet headlined,
Now more than ever, the Internet belongs to cord-cutters. A few days before that, he wrote another one headlined,
Mary Meeker's Internet report: User growth slowing, but disruption full speed ahead. And last December he wrote one titled,
Reports show it's becoming a cord cutter's world. SJVN obviously sees a trend here. So do a lot of other people, including cable TV and local TV executives who are biting their nails and asking themselves, "Whatever
shall we do?" So far, says SJVN, the answers they've come up with are not encouraging.
NOTE from Roblimo: We're trying something different with this video, namely keeping it down to about 4 minutes but running a text transcript that covers our 20+ minute conversation with SJVN. Is this is a good idea? Please let us know.Read Replies (0)