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business newsHewlett-Packard: Small Chips, Big Deal
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Nick Gwiazda Aug 31, 2010 4:35 pm
Hewlett Packard and Rice University have a breakthrough in the development of computer chips, stumbling upon a new way to minimize the size of small digital switches.
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Graduate researcher Jun Yao recently stumbled upon a new way to minimize the size of small digital switches. Theoretically, these switches could be stacked off one another three-dimensionally to create a chip with exponentially greater computing power.
What makes this deal even sweeter is that it uses silicon dioxide, a durable existing material used in computing. Now researchers have a design and a material for smaller memory units capable of storing hundreds of movies worth of information on a single chip -- about 100 times what they currently store.
(IBM (IBM) and Intel (INTC) are pursuing a competing technology known as “phase-change” memory (PRAM), where chalcogenide glass switches back and forth between a crystalline and amorphous state.
HP is partnering up with Hynix Semiconductor to produce its “memristor” concept. A memristor is a similar technology capable of retaining information without a power source.
With HP’s recent acquisition of Palm and its new partnership with Hynix Semiconductor, it goes without saying that a new HP device could definitely be in the works.
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