The News
Call it dense, but new chip loaded with data
By Kenneth Chang The New York Times
Article Last Updated: 01/25/2007 01:54:25 AM MST

Scientists have built a memory chip that is roughly the size of a white blood cell: about one-2,000th of an inch on a side. Although the chip is modest in capacity - with 160,000 bits of information - the bits are crammed together so tightly that it is the densest ever made. The achievement points to a possible path toward continuing the exponential growth of computing power even after current silicon chipmaking technology hits fundamental limits in 10 to 20 years.

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Read the research behind this story in the journal Nature