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"There has been much ado about the Atom Chip and their claims of quantum computing power. We found their booth at CES buried in the depths of hell. The product is very real and on display as a working model. Forget transfer speeds in megabytes, because when working with the Quantum Disk, it’s FAST with 4GB a second transfer rates. They are producing both an external hard drive and a laptop line. They work in Linux and Windows XP and haven’t been tested with anything Macintosh/Apple. Sizes of up to 4TB come in something the size of a book of matches (the laptops weigh 4.18 pounds). Stunning. Expensive. Laptops are expected to sell for $17,500. I’m still skeptical, only because this seems impossibly cool."

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/ces/live-from-ces-quantum-disk-from-atom-chip-corp-147086.php

The short version: up to four TERAbytes of solid state storage in something slightly bigger than a CF card.

1/6/2006 4:19:06 PM

And here's one of their laptops.

Quote :

" SPECIFICATIONS: 1TB AtomChip® Quantum-Optical Non-Volatile RAM and storage / 6.8GHz AtomChip® CPU (AtomChip® Quantum® II processor) / 2TB Additional AtomChip® Quantum Storage / 12.1" WXGA 1280x800,6:10 TFT Glare Type LCD display with 1.3 Mega pixel camera / Integrated graphic controller [AtomChip® DVM (Dynamic Video Memory) /802.11a/802.11b/802.11g WLAN /Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100/2200BG/2915ABG network connection / Bluetoth (with antenna build-in), GPS (with Bluetooth antenna) / PCMCIA slot x 1 / IEEE1394A x 1 / USB2.0 x 3 / SVGA-out port / Optical Drive: DVD Super Multi / LAN (RJ45) / Modem(RJ11), / Stereo Earphone-out / Built-in two stereo speakers / Built-in Microphone / Interface Ports Front Side:4 in 1 Card reader [SDIO, SD, MS Pro, MS] / Application Launch Key: E-mail,Internet, Capture, WLAN / Pointer: Synaptics touchpad with 4 way scrolling button / Rechargeable Li-Ion battery / Windows XP Professional and Linux / Voice Command / PROMT-Translator (8 languages) / AC Adapter / BOSE Headphone Music System with noise Canceling / Dimensions: 320(W)x242(D)x22(H)mm/28mm (front/back) /Weight around 4.18lb (1900g) when fully equipped. The expected selling price is $18,500."

I would say this shit isn't for real, but apparently they have working demos at CES. I dunno. Sounds crazy.

1/6/2006 4:22:11 PM

sure, but will it run quake?

1/6/2006 4:24:06 PM

I hear Go-L is offering this storage device in their new line of laptops.

1/6/2006 4:45:54 PM

ROFLMAO

ow only if it weren't so damn fake

1/6/2006 6:34:22 PM

whether that's real or not, the revolution is coming.

i expect a 30GB/60GB flash-memory iPod to be out on or before Jan 1, 2010.

affordable quantum home computers will be a reality by 2020.

1/6/2006 6:41:04 PM

look at all the products on their website. they have a headphone jack glued to some other crap and call it some state-of-the-art memory product

i also found a link online to a web archive of the website a while back. it looked 10 times mroe fake. that and there's no technical information to be found....anywhere

[Edited on January 6, 2006 at 6:44 PM. Reason : ]

1/6/2006 6:43:27 PM

they supposedly hve a booth at the CES in las vegas that ends on the 8th. someone go and check it out!

cesweb.org/attendees/directory/rd_exhibitor_details.asp?exhibid=7059&

1/6/2006 6:46:31 PM

ray kurzweil can have my first born child if it's true

1/6/2006 9:54:33 PM

they also unveiled holographic 300GB disc drives that are going into production soon

[Edited on January 6, 2006 at 10:06 PM. Reason : diff company]

1/6/2006 10:06:36 PM

This is one bad-ass wireless camera with "Shooting Button and Built-in Microphone"

1/6/2006 10:16:31 PM

http://atomchip.com/

Site Design by JeffK

1/6/2006 10:25:27 PM

Total hoax.

Watch their video:

http://www.compu-technics.com/images/solar%20memory.WMV

1/6/2006 10:31:51 PM

hahahaahhahahaha

1/6/2006 10:37:48 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, holy shit how can anyone take these people seriously

they're probbly the laughing stock of CES

1/6/2006 10:41:52 PM

http://web.archive.org/web/20040527160143/http://atomchip.com/

This guy has been making these claims for several years; this is their old website. Note the picture on the right of the "non-volatile RAM interface," which looks to me like an audio jack with an LED duct-taped to it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040527160143/http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimages/4-24GBAdapters.JPG

[Edited on January 6, 2006 at 10:57 PM. Reason : fixed?]

1/6/2006 10:49:03 PM

none of the pics on their website are resized to the size they're displayed on the webpage, so if you view the pic the resolutions are huge

most look fake and photoshopped, and they're all taken with a shitty cheap digital camera

1/6/2006 10:51:46 PM

It's probably some kind of publicity stunt... somehow...

1/6/2006 11:12:53 PM

they'll be the next cyberdyne systems

1/6/2006 11:14:45 PM

Holy shit I am dying laughing at that solar chip shit.

I hadn't even gone to their website. Holy fuck this is hot.

Isn't getting a booth at CES like REALLY expensive? Why would somebody do it for a joke?

1/6/2006 11:29:37 PM

You know what's even weirder?

CES gave them an award last year for innovation.

http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations/rd_2005honorees.asp?category=48

[Edited on January 6, 2006 at 11:39 PM. Reason : link]

1/6/2006 11:38:05 PM

some of that is definitely fake, but look

Quote :

"Dr. Gendlin laid his patent numbers one me, and guess what? They exist—and even bear the titles he named. Memory material and method of its manufacture Non-volatile record carrier with magnetic quantum-optical reading effect and method for its manufacture Thin film composite having ferromagnetic and piezoelectric properties comprising a layer of Pb-Cd-Fe and a layer of Cr-Zn-(Te or Tl) Method of manufacturing a non-volatile random accessible memory device Memory material and method for its manufacture Plus, he showed me photographs from 2003 of his chip manufacturing plant, CompuTechnics, based in Malaysia. There were photos of the good doctor surrounded by Malaysians in white clean room outfits, and one of him cutting the ribbon on a clean room shower. He claims the Israeli government is backing him to open a $3.5 billion chip manufacturing plant in Singapore this March. Another award in the cabinet that I couldn’t figure out turned out to be an Archimedes medal from Russia. "

not that tha tmakes it true. i think the guy's nuts, not a scam artist
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/live-from-ces-atom-photo-swirl-147155.php

[Edited on January 7, 2006 at 12:11 PM. Reason : .]

1/7/2006 12:10:02 PM

hahahaa


im pretty sure NO computer has addressing for 1TB of RAM (certainly not windows XP)

1/8/2006 12:21:28 AM

There are patents on perpetual motion machines. Patents don't mean a thing, and awards can be bought.

If the guy was just talking about theory, that'd be one thing--maybe he's just eccentric and deluded. But to show "working models" (that you won't let anyone try out) and claim they'll be on sale soon, based on technology that would require being years ahead of the top solid-state physics labs in the world...all at CES? Suggests to me that the guy's trying to lure investors into a scam.

1/8/2006 2:36:45 AM

How is that an optical plug when it has a regular electrical connector?

1/8/2006 3:33:39 AM

Quote :

"im pretty sure NO computer has addressing for 1TB of RAM (certainly not windows XP)"

I know that MS Server 2003 Datacenter x64 supports up to 1TB on multinode systems (we've booted systems with 512GB here at work) but I don't know if it would support it on a single node system. From the MS website:

Quote :

"Windows Server 2003 R2, Datacenter x64 Edition supports up to 1 TB of RAM on 8- to 64-way servers"

FYI, XP Pro x64 only supports up to 128 GB of phyisical RAM

[Edited on January 8, 2006 at 12:32 PM. Reason : xp info]

1/8/2006 12:30:43 PM

only 128gb

2x64gb sticks?

1/8/2006 12:40:54 PM

wasn't there a thread a while back about these guys?

1/8/2006 12:49:09 PM

^^^i'm pretty sure windows 2003 server data center ony supports 128GB on a single node

1/8/2006 1:34:20 PM

lafta...i've never had any experience with 64GB DIMMs and haven't looked to see if they even exist. We just started using 4GB DIMMs that are in development on servers so I'm thinking that a 64GB DIMM isn't in around yet. As for a system, we have individual servers that support 16 DIMMS, but even at 4GB per DIMM thats still only 64GB for one system. I'm sure that there is hardware out there that would support more but I haven't had any personal experience with one yet.

^Yeah, I wasn't thinking that it could, but wasn't 100% sure because I haven't worked with hardware to actually test that. But the language on the MS site certainly made me think that was the case.

Wanted to add that it is interesting that they include an 8-way system as being able to support up to 1TB of RAM. Unless they're are using a different definition of an 8-way system (for us that means a system with 8 processors) to keep one system within the 128GB limit, you'd have to have 8 systems with only 1 processor. No system we have has less than 2 processors, and anything old enough that would have only one wouldn't support the newer, larger sized RAM that would enable you to get up to 128GB

Oh, and I am by no means an expert on this subject, just going with what I use at work


[Edited on January 8, 2006 at 1:47 PM. Reason : response to Limpy]

1/8/2006 1:38:21 PM

Quote :

"whether that's real or not, the revolution is coming. i expect a 30GB/60GB flash-memory iPod to be out on or before Jan 1, 2010. affordable quantum home computers will be a reality by 2020."

[/thread]

1/8/2006 2:26:53 PM

You can't just say [/thread] and make it true.

Especially with a post as stupid as that.

1/8/2006 2:47:06 PM

Now THATS [/thread]

1/8/2006 2:48:19 PM

a lot of shit will be out by 2010

1/8/2006 3:10:33 PM

yeah that's a stupid post... whatever

stfu spooky... it was better when you were gone... one less person out of two who post-stalk me regularly.

get a life.

1/8/2006 3:11:05 PM

yeah, you should leave and come back, oh say, wednesday.

1/8/2006 5:37:43 PM