Don’t throw away your laptop yet, but there’s a promising new high-tech invention being announced this week. Researchers have created a memory circuit the size of a white blood cell that has 160 kilobits of capacity – it’s the densest memory circuit ever fabricated. A team of UCLA and California Institute of Technology chemists successfully demonstrated a large-scale, „ultra-dense“ memory device that stores information using reconfigurable molecular switches. This research represents an important step towards the creation of molecular computers that are much smaller and could be more powerful than today’s silicon-based computers.
Caltech and UCLA Researchers Create Memory Circuit the Size of a Human White Blood Cell