IBM Chip to Let You Download an HD Movie in One Second
Here is another article about IBM's chips, published on April 2 2007 at Gizmodo. They talk about fiber optics and the practicality of it. It is interesting to look at how much progress was made in less than two years.
That is insane the size of the chip compared to the dime!!! That is ridiculous and the amount of information it holds is incredible. This is the same thing as a flash drive, its the quanity that is important.
ReplyDeleteThis blows my mind. I always hear about the speed of fiber optics but I thought it was more a media ploy than anything else. To be able to move 160GB in ONE second is incredible. That's my whole laptop!
ReplyDeleteMakes me wonder when the digital age will hit a plateu. We're getting smaller and smaller and it's only a matter of time before things cool off, but then things will eventually pick up again.
ReplyDeleteOmg, it's so tiny. Soon they are going to be the size of the tip of a pin
ReplyDeleteit used to be that anything the size of a dime was exteamly small ....now thats big compared to how small technology can make things
ReplyDeleteSize does matter, I mean how much smaller do they need to make it? I agree with Joe I think they have out done themselves this time.
ReplyDeleteWow! Just seeing that chip compared to a dime is unbelieveable. Everything seems to be getting smaller and smaller. It makes me wonder just when it will all end. When is enough, enough?
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty impressive, although it is rather impractical. The fiber-optics may be capable of transferring data that fast, but surely our computer hard drives are not. So our computers will be the bottleneck until they are improved, and not the way files are transfered. Nevertheless, pretty cool.
ReplyDeletesometimes i cant wrap my mind around how such a small object can produce such great power. it truley is a great advancement in technology.
ReplyDeleteI just bought a 4gb micro SD card and i thought that was cool. This chip blows that out of the water. It makes me wonder how long it is going to be befor they can make tiny chips that swim around your bloodstream. Only a matter of time.
ReplyDeleteThere is an adage where the processor’s speed doubles every two years, yet halves its size. Other than the probability of being a choking hazard to young children, or hard to find if dropped, smaller chips are more efficient. There is a point in which this adage will have to cease. There is only so far that we can evolve. An example is a digital camera. Eight megapixels will make a great 8x10. Can you imagine how big a photo one would need for a gigapixel camera? It will never happen, not commercially anyway. For people, that is a larger than life photo. Back to chips, there is a point where it would be impractical to make the chip any smaller. We can only go so fast to the point where we would not notice or care about a lag.
ReplyDeleteOh My God. I can't believe the size of that chip. Where do you even insert that into?
ReplyDeleteI think it's crazy that, at the rate of change in our technological world, everything I own is now obsolete. My TV has a built-in VCR... my phone doesn't have a camera... It seems that no matter how hard I try, I just can't keep up with the Jones's! I don't know that I'll own anything with this chip in it anytime soon. I'm sure by the time I do, there will be something even better... and smaller.
ReplyDeleteYOU see alot of this type of stuff now with computers. I just worked on a MAC mini today and it was impressive to see how small the components are inside that machine, and its power. This is just another sign of innovative technology that will ultimately make our computers, cell phones, etc... smaller and more powerful.
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