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Fabrication Trick Offers Fivefold Leap in Hard-Disk Capacity
- wordplay 14y agoCan this also be applied to CPU assembly?
- m3koval 14y agoI doubt it. The article makes this sound pretty specific to producing the magnetic disks used in hard drives. I don't see any reason why this would also work for silicon processes.
- wmf 14y agoProbably not the same exact technique, but some people are researching self-assembly for post-silicon transistors.
- 001sky 14y agoWhat about read-write times? At some stage, storage density is not per-se the only issue. Speed, energy efficiency, error rates etc. are now to the fore in alot of places.
- Dylan16807 14y agoDoesn't read-write on a hard drive generally scale with linear density? Twice as fast to read, half as fast to read the entire disk.
- 001sky 14y agoAll things being equal. But that's the question -- is there something we are missing? I was surprised this would not be mentioned as a feature, for example, if it were true. But there is only this remark at the end: “One challenge is to achieve long-range order using copolymers without defects over large areas,” he says. With millions of data-storing dots on a disk’s platter, error rates must be very low to avoid significant numbers of them being positioned incorrectly.