Atom Chip - hoax or not a hoax?

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:06 pm

What do you think guys and gals - is Atom Chip Corporation with their 6.8 GHz CPU AtomChip® Quantum® II processor , memory 1TB Quantum-Optical non-volatile RAM & storage 2TB non-volatile Quantum RAM notebook a HOAX?!?

Company Site
http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html

From some blogs
http://digg.com/technology/Atom_Chip_Qu ... ghz_laptop
http://digg.com/hardware/Dvorak_on_the_ ... er_laptop_
http://digg.com/hardware/The_worlds_fir ... k_computer

CES 2006
http://cesweb.org/attendees/show_floor/ ... rodid=5420
http://cesweb.org/attendees/directory/r ... ibid=7059&

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:37 pm

Well, it says "coming soon", yet the screenshots shows that Windows XP is recognizing the processor. Is that possible?

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:13 pm

Trond wrote:Well, it says "coming soon", yet the screenshots shows that Windows XP is recognizing the processor. Is that possible?

Good question - and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition supports up to 128 gigabytes (GB) of RAM and 16 terabytes of virtual memory. So are they using virtual memory?!? BUT - it seems like they don't use the x64 Edition (if you look at the screenshots).

and take a look at this,

http://www.ecsusa.com/products/g220.html

Almost the same. It must be a hoax!!

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:20 pm

techjunkie wrote:is Atom Chip Corporation with their 6.8 GHz CPU AtomChip® Quantum® II processor , memory 1TB Quantum-Optical non-volatile RAM & storage 2TB non-volatile Quantum RAM

Hey, isn't that the system requirements for Longhorn?

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:25 pm

Hmm where did they get a screenshot of my machine?

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:25 pm

why do they have such an ugly homepage and so ugly pictures? heh its a hoax.

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:34 pm

Hmmmm... but they guy that owns the company, Shimon Gendlin, really has a couple of patents (#5,841,689 for example,
Non-volatile record carrier with magnetic quantum-optical reading
effect and method for its manufacture) from 1998.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ces20047.htm

I'm confused...

More about Gendlin,

http://www.zoominfo.com/directory/Gendl ... 596359.htm
http://www.patentstorm.us/inventors/Shi ... 85681.html

and this web page looks more "serious",

http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/25/index.htm

more links,

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1784
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_ ... reshold=-1

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:36 pm

It's possible, has i've already said somewhere in these forums the revolution in computation would come from optical processators / ram.

The concept reads real to me, the electrical signal is converted to light and sent to the processator/ram and then back again to electrical output!

If this is true, then i've confirmed my profecy!

They are already selling the IDE/ATAPI non-volatile ram at $2.5 a Gb (HD replacement) and the 144pin SODIMM ram at $4.5 the GB (RAM replacement)...

http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page2.html

Seems only the CPU is not being sold!

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:48 pm

the 2.5$ pr gb @ hd isnt really cheap, but its probably fast as hell.
But 4.5$ pr GB RAM!! can it be true?
I guess it does need a special motherboard though

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:25 pm

If no real physic multitasking, then no future

va!n · Post by **va!n** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 4:48 pm

seems its not a fake! the web is full with infos about the atom chip and its patent owner! first docs are available and announcement in 1996! 1 GB Ram for unter 10 euros!? coool! But the price for the hardware is to expensive atm! Let us wait until producing for mass!

Edit:
Please help... what means "HOAX" ? Is it another word for something like "a fake"? thanks

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:14 pm

va!n wrote:seems its not a fake! the web is full with infos about the atom chip and its patent owner!
first docs are available and announcement in 1996! 1 GB Ram for unter 10 euros!?
coool! But the price for the hardware is to expensive atm! Let us wait until producing for mass!

Edit:
Please help... what means "HOAX" ? Is it another word for something like "a fake"? thanks

Hoax, means trick to fool you into buying...

And no, it does not require any special system, from the specs i read it has adapters for IDE/ATAPI,
normal DIMM slots, and USB!

More info here:

http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page3.html

Seems that for now they only sell 1Tb (@ $2500)

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:16 pm

Well, I hope it is true!

A quantum leap in technology - and it would give AMD and Intel a match.

When I think about it... If someone had told me 25 years ago, when I had my brand new ZX81 with 1 kB memory and a tape recorder as storage media - that in 25 years you will have 1 TB storage media (3 harddisks) and almost everyone will have access to a large global network called the Internet, I would have laught and called them dreamers...

(Ohhh sh*t... Is it 25 years ago?!?! It seems like yesterday!

)

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:53 pm

As a note, this is the tech used now by stupids national defense organisms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_memory

Is that called atomchip Quantum-Optical technology (i have serious doubts they work using light quantums) using the hologram technology? other? mmm!
however it seems really nice

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:32 pm

techjunkie wrote:(Ohhh sh*t... Is it 25 years ago?!?! It seems like yesterday! )

Fifty years ago when I and... no wait, it was yesterday.

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