Rekall Incorporated
Rekall is a company that provides memory implants of vacations, where a client can take a memory trip to a certain planet and be whoever they desire.
Most optical memory storage methods developed in the past, including CDs and DVDs, are limited by the diffraction limit of light. A single data point cannot be smaller than the wavelength of the laser writing and reading the data. In the new work, the researchers proposed boosting the bit density of optical storage by embedding many rare-earth emitters within the material. By using slightly different wavelengths of light — an approach known as wavelength multiplexing — they hypothesized that these emitters could hold more data within the same area.
An interesting approach. In my limited understanding, this is comparable to getting more space by using different disc standards (CD, DVD, Bluray) at the same time.
That being said, on the consumer side everything seems to be moving towards solid state storage mediums. Even if this does get commercialized in the next ~5 years, I can’t see this competing with SSDs on the consumer side.
That ship has sailed.
While always liked larger screen phones (even back when they were called phablets), I do wish we had more choice (and competition) in our smartphone products. But I guess the impact of economies of scale and platform network effects is so large that we can’t really have effective competition.
I am looking at it from a more global perspective; more competition results in better prices and a wider selection of products for consumers. In that sense, we want AMD and Intel to be both competitive and roughly equal.
I explicitly stated that I would not buy an Intel desktop CPU or an Intel laptop at this point.