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To: Tom Terf who wrote (56)3/18/2000 12:28:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (1) of 116
 
IBM makes breakthrough for computer data storage

NEW YORK, March 17 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) said on Friday it had made a breakthrough that may one day allow computer hard disks and other data-storage systems to store more than 100 times more data than today's products.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers said they discovered chemical reactions that cause tiny magnetic particles, each comprised of only a few thousand atoms, to automatically arrange themselves.

Each particle is separated from its neighbors by the same preset distance, and the reactions permit precise control of the separation distance between them, factors that are important to increasing data density, IBM said.

The breakthrough, published in Friday in the Journal Science, was two years in the making, and it is unknown how long it would take to for the research to translate into actual products.

"This is basic scientific research," Shouheng Sun, an IBM researcher involved in the project, said in an interview. "We need to do a lot more research and collaboration before we can make a product."

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