IBM Research have announced that they can now store one bit of data on 12 atoms.

That level of data density could turn today’s typical desktop into a monster with 100 terabytes of hard disc space and 4 terabytes of memory.

ZDnet explains that the technique used by researchers at IBM’s Almaden labs in California is based on antiferromagnetism, the reverse of traditional ferromagnetism where each atom’s magnetic force is lined up with its neighbours creating a large Continue Reading