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I wonder how small this could get. If it could be shrunk to fit in, say, a 0603, you could fit a million of these on a decently-small pcb. And case of those co
by nynx 6y ago
I wonder how small this could get. If it could be shrunk to fit in, say, a 0603, you could fit a million of these on a decently-small pcb.
And case of those could have a billion memristors.
- dexwiz 6y agoChemistry definitely changes with scale, but that could be a good thing. This effect may be more powerful in the Nanoparticle size range, and then we can make memresistors only a few atoms thick.
- nrp 6y agoTime to be pedantic: A 0603 footprint is about 3.2mm by 1.4mm with extremely dense spacing. A two sided board with nothing but 1,000,000 0603s would be 2.24 square meters. Stacking those boards at 10mm height intervals, that would be a 10 meter tall case.
- nynx 6y agoOh, you're probably right there. Is that metric or imperial 0603? Anyhow, if it could be shrunk, presumably it could be packaged efficiently. A room sized computer, but with a billion memristors might be worth it.
- nrp 6y agoImperial. In any case, this is helps visualize how incredibly modern IC fabrication and packaging is. The biggest CPUs have up to 40 billion transistors and the biggest flash chips have 2 trillion! Following our naive 3.2mm by 1.4mm by 5mm spacing, that would be 896 and 44,800 cubic meters respectively!
- 6510 6y agoThis is a 50 000 liter tank to give an idea. https://www.directwatertanks.co.uk/50000-litre-vertical-grp-one-piece-storage-tank https://www.directwatertanks.co.uk/50000-litre-vertical-grp-... I wonder if this means it is undoable.
- varjag 6y agoNo that would be a 50 million litre tank.
- Dylan16807 6y agoTo be fair those flash cells stack directly on top of each other so in some sense you can shave off a factor of ten.