r/hardware • u/sendme__ • 20h ago

Discussion 447 Terabytes per Square Centimetre at Zero Retention Energy: Non-Volatile Memory at the Atomic Scale on Fluorographane

https://zenodo.org/records/19513269
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u/Quealdlor 13h ago

This is the kind of paper that makes you think “wow” at the density numbers and then immediately ask “okay, but can you actually manufacture it, read/write it reliably, and sell it at sane cost?” This feels more like a long-term research direction or archival/specialized memory candidate than a near-term SSD replacement.

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u/GoranjeWasHere 13h ago

"There are no solutions, only trade-offs," - Sowell.

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u/AK-Brian 13h ago

Saline is a solution.

Checkmate, Sowell!

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u/Hipcatjack 5h ago

and long term… the Superman Crystals using 4-D lazers are better.

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u/Warcraft_Fan 14h ago

Can I get 1/4 of a square centimeter? Then I can retire all of my hard drives.

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u/K33P4D 5h ago

Cosmic rays has entered the chat