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Re:Nantero comes out of stealth mode: Carbon nanotube based ... by dexwiz on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @08:20AM (#9685418)
Nantero is not the only company making nanotubes. Nanotechnology as a whole, and carbon nanotubes (CNT) as a prime component, have been a hot topic in material science and chemistry for almost two decades now. Not just research for applications, but for production. They are not alone in trying to solve problems centered around nanotech. But the CNT production overall is still very low (only 5k tons in 2014 according to this article http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/04/22/727078/1013...)

No one is saying the iPhone 8 will have NRAM. The manufacturing research and implementation cycle is painfully slow. But if the cost/benefits may pay off in 2025, someone needs to be looking at it today.

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Re:Nantero comes out of stealth mode: Carbon nanotube based ... by adventured on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @04:05PM (#9688223)
I completely agree that it's a future, potentially viable technology, and it should be explored.

Some people in this thread certainly seem to think it's imminent, because they're claiming it's all ready to be mass manufactured due to compatibilities in the manufacturing process, and just taking Nantero's hype at face value (like we were all supposed to be drowning in memristors by now, just ask HP).

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Re:Nantero comes out of stealth mode: Carbon nanotube based ... by personjerry on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @12:39PM (#9686890)
What's the point of coming out of stealth at this time then?
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