Sanket Vijayasarathy, 10 March 2017Share on Facebook Tweet Share Share Email Reddit
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The research was published in scientific journal NatureResearchers found a way to magnetize individual atoms of holmiumThe finding explores the possibilities of atomic-computingIBM says it has managed to store data on a single atom. The research, which was conducted at IBM’s Almaden lab in Silicon Valley, was published in scientific journal Nature on Wednesday. The finding could potentially change the way we store data in the future.To put things in perspective, a hard drive takes about 100,000 atoms to store a single bit of data - a bit is comprised of 1 or 0. In comparison, IBM claims that it can reduce it to a single atom to store one bit of data. This