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Moore's Law Keeps Going
12-atom storage devices would be much, much smaller than today’s disks.
Heinrich’s friends at hard-drive maker Hitachi estimate that their storage
drives require about 800,000 atoms per bit.
The ratio of 800,000 to 12 is 66667, which is a little more than 65536, which in turn is 2 to the 16th power.
This means that magnetic storage has 16 more doublings before it reaches its limit and has to go 3D.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/01/ibm-scientists/
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12-atom storage devices would be much, much smaller than today’s disks.
Heinrich’s friends at hard-drive maker Hitachi estimate that their storage
drives require about 800,000 atoms per bit.
The ratio of 800,000 to 12 is 66667, which is a little more than 65536, which in turn is 2 to the 16th power.
This means that magnetic storage has 16 more doublings before it reaches its limit and has to go 3D.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/01/ibm-scientists/
Next