In October 2002 he was talking about a new technology developed by the company IBM to store data on a surface in a very ingenious and efficient way. The technology allowed at the same time great speed of access to the data and a great density of writing of these, that is, the use of a very small amount of matter to store information.
Let’s see what he had to explain this really interesting technology and then analyze what has happened to it and if it is still used.
You can read what he said here
As I was saying, the explanations about the way in which this wonderful new computer memory works that I expected to see working in personal computers in a few years. What has become of her?
The answer is that it has not been commercialized and it never saw the light of day nor did it work on any computer. Despite IBM demonstrated the functionality of the memory at the international computer exhibition CeBIT in 2005, and hoped to commercialize the technology in 2007, his intentions never materialized.
However, the technology was very promising. In the first prototype, the diameter of the holes that the nanotips generated on the polymer was about 40 nm. IBM It even reduced this diameter to just 10 nm, which theoretically allowed a terabyte of data to be stored, or a thousand gigabytes, if you prefer, in just one square inch, or a little less than 6.5 square cm.
Why then did it not materialize in the computer market? Well, simply because competing technologies and also very well developed, substantially improved their capabilities. Conventional hard drives from those distant years for computing also evolved and improved and came to be capable of storing around 636 Gb per square inch, a high information density comparable to that offered by the Millipede. Hard drives were also a well-known and accessible technology. The new technology of the nanoholes did not offer substantial advantages to overcome them.
Today, traditional mechanical hard drives have been almost completely replaced by drives called SSD, based on semiconductor cells, which are not mechanical or disk-shaped. The appearance of the discs SSD makes it even more unlikely that Millipede technology will ever see commercialization. So here we have an excellent example of how a good idea, developed by surely imaginative, hard-working and very intelligent people, nevertheless ends in failure. Intelligence is not a guarantee of success, nor is stupidity, of failure, as we can see every day on television in so many aspects of life.
Jorge Laborda (09/18/2022)
Works by Jorge Laborda.
Your defenses against coronavirus
Your defenses against coronavirus
Deflamed immunology: An introduction to the immune system and its pathologies
Deflamed immunology: An introduction to the immune system and its pathologies
Deflamed immunology: An introduction to the immune system and its pathologies
Kilo of Science Volume XII eBook
Kilo of Science Volume XII Paper
Kilo of Science Volume I. Jorge Laborda
Kilo of Science Volume II. Jorge Laborda
Kilo of Science Volume III. Jorge Laborda
Kilo of Science Volume IV. Jorge Laborda
Kilo of Science Volume V. Jorge Laborda
Kilo of Science Volume VI. Jorge Laborda
Kilo of Science Volume VII. Jorge Laborda
Kilo of Science Volume VIII. Jorge Laborda
Kilo of Science Volume IX. Jorge Laborda
Kilo of Science Volume X. Jorge Laborda
Kilo of Science Volume XI. Jorge Laborda
Matrix of homeopathy
Chained circumstances. Ed.Lulu
Chained circumstances. Amazon
One moon, one civilization. Why the Moon tells us that we are alone in the Universe
One moon, one civilization. Why the Moon tells us that we are alone in the Universe
One Moon one civilization why the Moon tells us we are alone in the universe
The thousand and one bases of ADN and other science stories
Adenius Fidelius
The intelligence funnel and other essays
The gods have been cloned