Atom Chip Corporation — Why does none of this sound right to me? It’s quite hard to tell if this so-called new chip is anything but a 4-way Pentium lash-up. Even so it would be difficult to not have heat problems in a laptop.
It gets more weird with the Terabyte solid state memory module. Someone sent the links asking if this was a hoax. It seems more like wishful thinking. We’ll see soon enough once the crowd looks this over. I can just say that on first inpection it doesn’t look right. And things like this do not appear out-of-the-blue like this and show up on websites with zero contact information.
That said this appears to be the next iteration of this company, Computechnics, run by Shimon Gendlin. You can do the searches yourself but he claims to have invented (or discovered) something called the Gendlin effect that makes no sense to me whatever it is. He once partnered with a Japanese inventor who claims to have invented the first floppy disc too. As far as I know the floppy was invented by a team of IBM engineers in 1971.
He put together a laptop which he is supposed to show at the 2006 CES show. You can be sure I’ll be tracking that one down. The website goes out of its way to prove that the company is actually listed in the CES catalog already. Seems a bit much.
You should be amused by all this.
Atom Chip Corporation has developed and designed the new ultra-high density, ultra-high speed and extremely compact size non-volatile integrated optoelectronic Random Access Memory (NvIOpRAM). 3.2GB of non-volatile RAM are contained in one cubic millimeter.
WHAT IS QUANTUM-OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY?
This Quantum-Optical technology, which is the advancement of the Quantum technology (U.S. Patent No 5,841,689, and one new patent pending.) is based on the discovered magnetic quantum-optical phenomenon in porous silicon, entitled after the name of its discoverer, the Gendlin Effect. The Quantum-Optical technology has a minimum sustained write speed of 6 gigabytes (GB) per second and a read speed of 8 GB per second.
WTF?
200-pin SODIMMs at $6 per 1GB??
From the site
These products will outperform at a much lower cost
any other RAM devices that are currently being produced.
The NvIOpRAM [ATA IDE] products have the selling price of $2.50 per 1GB.
NvIOpSRAM [144-pin SODIMM] products have the selling price of $4.50 per 1GB.
NvIOpSRAM [200-pin SODIMM] products have the selling price of $6.00 per 1GB.
Powered by cold fusion perhaps
6.8GHz notebook? Can’t wait to see this burst into flames at CES next year! I give the guy an A+ for dreaming big though =)
Also from the site:
“The use of this new memory allows to totally revise the concept of the making of the design not only of the computer, which lacks mechanical parts, but of other electronic devices, for instance video recorders, CD, DVD and a lot of others, since the physical characteristics and the density of information of the new optical memory are superior to all existing information storage devices.”
Lacks mechanical parts? Should take miniaturization to a whole new level! 🙂
I’ve seen this before. The one thing that most people point out — that suggest this is a hoax — is the screen shot of MS Windows System Properties window. It shows the system has 2TB of RAM — that’s terabytes. Windows, not even 64bit Windows, can not ‘see’ 2TB of RAM. It’s impossible.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2191_v43/ai_19951759#continue
Interesting read.
It is a hoax. Check out this video:
http://www.compu-technics.com/images/solar%20memory.WMV
–Monty
It sound to me like the next big product for a Multi Level Marketing Company!!
When you put one of these inside a microsoft notebook it sends the excess power to satelites aimed at the headquarters of google and apple.
Even though this appears to be a hoax, I think it’s only a matter of time before solid-state HDD’s (long-term storage devices) will replace existing ‘spindle’ HDD’s – they’d be faster and fail less often. Perhaps the HDD’s will take the place of tape drives since they can’t seem to keep up with the vast amounts of data we have today.
I see alot of skeptics of this that seem to have the only point of screeming at u till u see it their way. I believe that it might happen, not a hoax, but i could see it not goin through for a long time.
BTW i checked the patent # on 1 of the pics and it says it was takin out in 95.
Mike, that is still expensive. Because at $6/GB their 1TB module shown costs $6000! And at 60ns read, this thing is too slow to be used as anything but mass storage. (not that I think any of this technology actually exists)
Most likely a hoax. But similar things could theorically exists…
And for solid state replacing HDD, I really think optical will replace magnetic HDD even tho the technology is still not perfect… And after, when the technology is perfected, hdds might be replaced by tiny transparent cubes wich a read via optical means (technology already exists but requires way too much specialized equipment)
Sean I am not sure what screen you were looking at, but the only one that I could see on the website talking about 2TB of RAM was under the products page, and then it was talking about HD space. Yes currently no windows system that I know of can support 2TB of RAM, but in this case the RAM is being used as a HD. If you look at the image you will realize that it is the properties of a HD and not the system propterties like you were talking about.
I would say hoax, windows can only handle 4 gigs of memory.
Any 32 bit processor (8, 2 bit registers) can only address 2^32 bytes of memory (4,294,967,296) which is 4 gigs of memory. No 32bit Ix86 processor can address out more than 4 gigs of memory reguardless, end of discussion.
Thats why we are going to 64 bit. (16, 2 bit registers)
2^64 = 1.84467441 × 10EE19
18,446,744,100,000,000,000 bites
18,446,744,100 gigs
18,446,744.1 terra bites
You get the point, yay 64-bit 🙂
C’mon man. This is such a hoax! Why is this stupid thing getting so much attention?
I’ve heard of the Gendlin Effect. It’s an integral part of the Flux Capacitor which as we all know; is what makes time travel possible.
it’s only a matter of time before solid-state HDD’s
Not plausable.Solid state mediums have limited rewrutes before becoming read only, OSs like to pretend HDDs are RAM and write data to them a lot. It wouldnt be long before you brick your solid state HDD. That and normal HDDs cost far less per megabyte
I like how you all are speculating that this is a hoax. Look at the company’s website. First of all, the website is absolutely retarded, and a company with the resources to produce this crap would be able to do better. All of the products are CLEARLY just junk glued together to look like something important, such as the absolutely absurd looking memory module that’s obviously just an audo jack with an LED glued to it. Also, the patent number on their “Quantum technology” doesn’t point to any real patent. I don’t know how any of you can say it’s “most likely” a hoax when no hoax I’ve ever seen has been so poorly constructed.
Come on, you’re all smarter than this!
It looks like they really are presenting at CES, though. I’d love to check that out, it should be HILARIOUS.
But, it CAN’T be a fake! Just look at all the awards they’ve won — one is an Oscar!
RePete: “C’mon man. This is such a hoax! Why is this stupid thing getting so much attention?”
It’s because John Dvorak isn’t smart enough to realize this is a hoax and is giving this company free advertisement for a product that cannot and does not exist.
-Aaron-
It’s a hoax. If the patent # is bogus…then there’s really not much else to say, is there?
This is just like the bonsai kitten.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=gendlin&FIELD1=INZZ&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=ptxt
Patent 5841689 and then Kappa Numerics (which was assignee to all previous patents) sent $45,000 to Dr Gary Erickson at Boise State U. in fall 2000 for Fabrication Services Contract, likely to be spent on the Micron Engineering Center accessible to BSU (see URI above)
Not sure what came out of this, but gerickson@boisestate.edu might have a view on the subject.
My take is that if Micron would see any potential at that point, during the Rambus/Dramurai wars, they would have found a way to turn it into reality, unless some unbelievable royalty requests. Furthermore, Micron might have made a quad PM chipset for the occasion (remember Samurai with integrated L3 in 1999) so assuming Intel would make EM64T PM going beyond 36-bits each, you could address 274GB.
I guess the remainder would have to be PCI-bridged or whatever.
Also it’s hard to imagine that given the competitiveness of the memory industry, no one would have pursued the patent by now, especially since Mr Ghendlin claims there is not much retooling, not to mention Intel trying an alternative to FB-DIMM, AMD HTXing Hypertransport to NVIopSRAM, SSD manufacturers and the like….
Constellation 3D anyone ?
Hey, Go to their home page and click “CONTACT US” and see if anyone can get a response from them.
An i-pod operating system works with 60gb of memory, it do not make diference if you tell the operanting system how to work, for exemple, if you are using full 4gb of ram memory, you may use SWAP memory…just a note…this system are working with the same kind of memory in a both. ways;-)
sorry my english.
so how many of the people posting here could explain what a fourier transform is, how it works, as well as understanding the principals of quantium theory? regardless of the legitimacy of atomchip.com, do any of you realise that not only is this technology possible(means; not necesarily to the same end), but its just a matter of time before it becomes commercially mainstreamed in a way similar to the site in question here.
you may like to have a look at http://www.bgu.ac.il/atomchip/ and use wikipedia.org if you dont understand some of ‘the big words’.
this is rediculous. anyone that keeps up with processors/memory… etc… would know that we are comming to an end in speed production… using current productions methods, there is NO WAY possible to fit enough transistors on a processor for 6.8Ghz… ESPECIALLY not a laptop processor! At this point, manufacturers can’t produce much higher speeds without using a high frequency light wave in the silicon cutting procedure.
take a look in ntfs max volume size =)
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm
ok look intel just resently finsish its first optical chip and only the chip is optical. second quantom computing isnt even in effect. thrid the first use of quantion comp-uting is electron tunnleing using single electron transistors only problem still to much interference from other componets leaking electrons. this has to be a hoax. if he accualy did it how ever kudos to him…one thought thugh the original singer sewing machinces weighd 20 sum odd pounds and were coniderded portable so maby he concidersa a 6’x6′ platform laptop size.