yes by adding impurities to a substance and experimenting they have done an awesome job.cool tech news.

If this pans out, whoever gets their hands on it first wins

A change in technology, rather than improvements in current ones... Smells delicious.

This sounds awesome! By the way, it should be "managed such a feat" instead of "mattered such a feat". Can't rely on spellcheck alone! And it might sound nitpicky, but you really should stop saying "apparently" so much. It makes you sound like you're not sure what you're reporting is true. Other than that I think you've gotten better, Kevin.

Fuck science fiction, the future happened YESTERDAY!

But does it play Crysis?

sounds great if it ever goes main stream. there are a ton of cool techs that have come out, a big name company buys the rights and then sends it to a shelf so they can keep making more money. good case is the hydrogen engine, thats been around for quite some time and just now seeing the light of day in a car.

Hmmm, typically reports of new silicon or flash storage technology include some kind of disclaimer that, "this technology is still 10 years away from practical applications," or somesuch. Now that I think about it, it seems to me it's always "10 years away." I wonder if the absence of such a clause was omitted on purpose. Hmmmm...

And since it's a new material: Will it blend?

Also, I love that this photo from the Jerk keeps showing up in Tom's Hardware articles. :-)

I wonder if this well ever lead to something,or will it be like all those other promising technologies that lead to nothing.

What happened to the memristore? It was expected to make a huge impact in the industry, but I've never heard anything again since late 2008.

1tb is great, what about performance to fill that 1tb? and reliability? although at that size even a semi-raid1 like on-chip design would cover that using 2+ chips etc aslong as costs are low

They haven't made a 1tb chip, they made a tiny amount of a nickel doped ceramic and characterised its spin properties. Big deal - another research group talks up a discovery to grab grants. As a researcher this type of unrealistic bs is tiresome, scientists are doing important research in many fields all over the world, but unless you can claim it will solve the world energy crisis, cure cancer and wash whiter at low temps it gets no recognition. I mean, come on, 80mpg 'cause the engine can withstand twice the heat of a standard cast iron block? We have ceramic materials that would do better that right now, they are just way to expensive and, looking at the methods used for synthesising it, so is this stuff.

Do they manufacture it at 1nm then? (I mean,50 times more info than current silicon, which is fabricated at between 45 and 55nm theoretically should be around 1nm).

so we'll see it in 40 years then?

Ceramics do offer a higher combustion temp, getting more out of your fuel, as well as being lighter, and not having to have as large a cooling system throughout the engine design, which shrinks it further, reducing weight even moreso.
The good part about this is the ceramic approach, as temps would no longer be a problem, dispersal would, but immediate units wouldnt need to worry about heat, and could go faster as well as smaller

Now all we need is to find a way to not lose it

So.... they haven't actually created a thumbnail sized chip.. it's just theoretically possible with this new material and from the wording it seems to imply they haven't actually created anything from it yet... could we plese dispense with the sensationalist headlines? We aren't some bunch of louts looking for a shocking healine before we turn to page 3.

"New material could someday create false nails holding 1TB of storage" might have been an even better headline if you have to go with sensationalist

Nothing like a blatant lie in the headline. Way to go Tom's, I didn't think it could be done, but you've gotten even worse!

Wow, the only thing cooler than this is an Ion Engine being powered by it!

I hope it turns out to be a faster seek time when used for memory. Imagine 8 - 16 of these on 1 stick of RAM... (assuming the pin interface changes to handle it, CPU socket style RAM modules anyone?)

this is very interesting ceramics normally do not suit well at high temperatures. They have been talking of polymer ceramic/metals that will replace turbine blades and engines, effectively a plastic engine. popular concept in the 1980s. I thought for sure everyone gave up but, this seems kinda cool. Fingers crossed.

Just think of the possibilities, PetaByte SSD drives!!!

What a misleading article title. It implies that they have created the chip, and the article is about how it's theoretically possible using this new material. Hard to solder "in theory" chips to a PCB, no?

Gives new meaning to the term "thumb-drive"

This si making me VERY excited.

Ceramic engines are nothing new.
The issue is that they are prone to wearing quickly in even conventual use.

We've been trying to do a ceramic rotary engine for the masses for years, but thus far, not much for funding has gone into the project.
(Ceramic because of the heat properties, allowing higher efficiency and insanely higher RPMs, and a rotary engine, because they're a much better design overall, short of a fatal flaw, that they need constant servicing due to wearing fast.)

If one could cram as many of those as they wanted into a modern sized "thumb drive," we're talking easy movement of huge files. Heck, they could cram hundred into a 3.5 inch HDD. The possibilities are endless. But yeah, we'll see this technology in around 10 years for around $500 a chip.

The new atoms are 90-percent smaller than the ones used today,

1 TB ram i like it

great new. now we just have to wait 20years before it's commercially available -.-"

I like it how these directors of National stuffs have non-National names!