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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j44g593 wrote

Very, very interesting stuff! The memory density, reliability, stability and efficiency of future memory will be astonishing; we're already blowing our own minds with how far digital memory has come in the last few decades.

But now that 'we', as a huge social superorganism bestriding the earth, have really started getting right down to the basic molecular electromagnetic physical chemistry of things like this, the possibilities opening up in front of us are hard to even comprehend...

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dannzter t1_j4654vl wrote

Could you explain to me a little bit what the implications of this could be? I'm not really familiar with the subject.

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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j46h5qj wrote

Not an engineer by any measure, so I don't really know what I'm talking about... But, as far as I can tell, figuring out how to use the newly discovered information-holding potential within these kind of ultra, ultra tiny, yet extraordinarily robust, non-volatile and relatively easy to manipulate electromagnetic 'static vortices'...

/ takes deep breath / could dramatically increase the density, reliability and overall utility of electromagnetic data storage, but it is probably many years away before any kind of remotely practical hardware could be built to utilise it.

It's similar, I think, to the sci-fi idea of embedding/extracting data through lasers, working three-dimensionally within the molecular matrix of high-purity crystals. It's a neat idea with a lot of hypothetical potential, but at this stage it's a bit of a crap-shoot how 'feasible' it could be.

Hopefully these are the sorts of questions that AI will rapidly become better at answering!

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TheRidgeAndTheLadder t1_j485d2h wrote

It's a candidate to replace the transistor

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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j48v4mo wrote

Is it? I thought it looked like a matrix of 'up'/'down' information holding bits in a magnetic substrate. I must have missed the bit where it could provide transistor functionality as a microscopic remotely-switched current gate.

I don't see how these vortices could be strung together into and/nand/or/nor logic pathways, like transistors do. It really just looks like an information-carrying magnetic substrate. Did I miss something?

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