Atom Chip to Exhibit Terabit Quantum Memory at CES – $2.50 Per Gigabyte Chip Memory Reported
Atom Chip Corporation, which has reserved a booth to exhibit its
terabyte memory chips at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, indicates on its web site that it has
quantum based memory chips priced at $2.50 per Gigabyte. The price is far below the $45 a Gigabyte equivalent
monolithic chip price and the $80 plus one has to pay for one Gigabyte flash cards on the retail market.
Atom Chip’s technology is based on solid state optoelectronics
and does not have moving parts. The Quantum Optical Memory can be used as RAM and the basis for hard disk drive free PCs.
The specifications that the company lists for its Non-Volatile Quantum RAM Storage device include a standby current of less
than 0.5 uA, a read time of 60 nanoseconds and an update time of 120 nanoseconds. The shock specification is given at 2000
G, max.
The price set for the Terabyte chip is $6000.00. One terabyte is
equal to 1,000 gigabytes – more than enough memory for most people, for now – the Internet on a Chip anybody?
