The future of fast

[theletch1]

Found this while digging around the "net".

In research published in the March 4, 2008, online edition of Applied Physics Letters, scientists from the Technical University of Berlin, in Germany, and Istanbul University, in Turkey, describe how they created a type of quantum-dot-based memory device that can save information at speeds of only a few nanoseconds (billionths of a second).

 

[Sukerkin]

Interesting. If memory speeds improve by a factor of 100 then we would be in for a mad scramble to uprate everything else in a computer to take advantage of that.

 

[theletch1]

Yes. Memory speed that fast would tend to create a "gold rush" if you will on memory capacity and internet speed. Fiber optics all around, perhaps?