IBM Figures Out How Many Atoms It Takes To Hold A Bit

By yanko at 13 January, 2012, 10:45 am

Rather than trying to shrink current data storage technologies further, IBM took the opposite approach and designed a new system from the ground up — building it individual atoms. The new storage could lead to 100-fold increases in chip densities. Take that, Moore’s Law. Researchers at IBM, in conjunction with the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, used a scanning tunneling …

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IBM Figures Out How Many Atoms It Takes To Hold A Bit

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