This strikes me as the herald for Johnny Mnemonic or something else out of a sci-fi movie. Its FAR away but I can see it being a real possibility one day... provided the world still around:
Boffins create densest memory circuit
Stores 2000 words in the size of a blood cell
By Nick Farrell: Thursday 25 January 2007, 07:50
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NORTH AMERICAN boffins have worked out a way of sticking more than 2000 words of data into a memory circuit board the size of a white blood cell.
According to the popular science mag Nature, Caltech and the UCLA have come up with what they think is the densest memory circuit board in existence.
The 160-kilobit memory cell say has a bit density of 100 gigabits per square centimetre.
Caltech chemistry professor James Heath, who led the research said it would be ages before the technology ends up in a lap top. Heath thinks it is the sort of technology that Intel will be deploying in about 2020.
Manufacturers are stuck at how to extending miniaturisation of circuits beyond the year 2013 as they have not really worked out a way of defeating Moore's Law.
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