Future RAM may be light based?

[RGProductions]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

At 3W a stick it isn't much, but put eight of them in a case and they can generate some noticeable heat.

 

15 minutes ago, WMGroomAK said:

RAM does have heat production, just nowhere in the neighborhood of the CPU or GPU where it requires an active cooling solution. Most of the time you'll see a heat spreader over the RAM chips that are supposed to help to passively cool them.  

I just meant it wan't enought to make a difference, unless it goes down to like 0.1 watts/stick

[WMGroomAK]

2 hours ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

Oh that was the part that referenced to storage. Now explaining how all those laws work must be quite the challenge xD.

Been doing some digging on the topic myself and there is not much in the literature about the details, but I did find a nice little paper from 2012 titled: 'Light controlled magnetoresistance and magnetic field controlled photoresistance in CoFe film deposited on BiFeO3'.  It seems like this is probably an improvement on the ideas presented in this paper, maybe with different materials.

 

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1207/1207.0314.pdf

 

[SansVarnic]

Interesting. Will have to keep an eye on this tech. Not sure how it will integrate as other tech develops but it is pretty cool.

[ARikozuM]

4 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

Interesting. Will have to keep an eye on this tech. Not sure how it will integrated as other tech develops but it is pretty cool.

Look how close we are to carbon nanotubes!

[Mira Yurizaki]

I'm waiting for memristors to become a thing. They had so much promise and it sort of rocked the electrical engineering world when they were realized back in 2008-2009.

[ErickS89]

4 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

RGB will also be on the inside of RAM? What a world we live in.

An RGB Glorious GabeN world!

 

So should expect this by X999?

[RadiatingLight]

1 hour ago, RGProductions said:

 

I just meant it wan't enought to make a difference, unless it goes down to like 0.1 watts/stick

Well, one of my concerns with overvolting my RAM is heat.

they have heat spreaders, but they're tiny and my RAM gets extremely hot during a RAM stress test. almost too hot to touch if I run it for a long time.

[RadiatingLight]

19 minutes ago, ErickS89 said:

An RGB Glorious GabeN world!

 

So should expect this by X999?

not even close lol.

X999 is in 7 years if intel sticks to their naming scheme.

[JuNex03]

8 hours ago, RadiatingLight said:

you forgot a zero on your 10 years.

 

I'm willing to bet my left nut that this will never come to market.

Can we atleast test your nut if it still works? Don't want to RMA the thing after one day of use. Make sure all the warranty stickers are all still attached, we'll be back for that nut when the time comes.

[Prysin]

not this shit again. "Light computers"

its been a fetish for many researchers for years. And they keep hitting the same snags over and over and over and over.

[Bit_Guardian]

Yeah, no, not happening. Optical has scaled down as far as it's going to go. HPE has officially given up on optical computing, and it was the last big spender on it. Optical interconnect, even on-board interconnect, find, but for actual logic or memory cells? They're dreaming. Outside the lab, it's worthless and shall remain so. Resistive RAM is going to be the tech of the future for at least 15 years.

[NLD1st]

RAM on a diet --->  light RAM  ghehe

[bigneo]

14 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

interesting tech, hope some big company picks up on it and gets to work so we can have this on the market before i die lol

And @RadiatingLight left nut to go

[Doramius]

21 hours ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

How is that related with LI-RAM xD? How exactly is the single molecule level affected by light in a way that it could increase potential storage of the RAM is what i asked :/.

 

How is RAM even a robot .-.?

i think it's even more funny that you didn't catch the reference. 

[VerticalDiscussions]

3 minutes ago, Doramius said:

-snip-

Would you care to enlighten me and tell me where its from xD?

[Doramius]

4 minutes ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

Would you care to enlighten me and tell me where its from xD?

Just a jesting jab from an obviously old nerd, but if you want to understand the comment:
 

Spoiler

Isaac Asimov was a Sci-Fi novelist most noted for "I, Robot".  -Thus the "3-laws"
As for the relationship to light and memory, look up his short story "The Last Question", and focus mainly on the last section.

 

[JohnnyCorporalTech]

carbon nano tube transistors!!!!!!!