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Atom Chip - hoax or not a hoax?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:06 pm
by techjunkie
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:37 pm
by Trond
Well, it says "coming soon", yet the screenshots shows that Windows XP is recognizing the processor. Is that possible?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:13 pm
by techjunkie
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!!
Re: Atom Chip - hoax or not a hoax?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:20 pm
by Beach
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?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:25 pm
by GeoTrail
Hmm where did they get a screenshot of my machine?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:25 pm
by thefool
why do they have such an ugly homepage and so ugly pictures? heh its a hoax.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:34 pm
by techjunkie
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
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:36 pm
by Num3
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 $4.5 the GB (RAM replacement)...
http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page2.html
Seems only the CPU is not being sold!
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:48 pm
by thefool
the 2.5$ 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
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:25 pm
by Psychophanta
If no real physic multitasking, then no future
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 4:48 pm
by va!n
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
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:14 pm
by Num3
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)
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:16 pm
by techjunkie
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!
)
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:53 pm
by Psychophanta
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
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:32 pm
by Trond
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.
