Samsung has announced a new RAM technology that will make mobile phones with 2GB of memory a reality very soon, possibly within the next year 2013. While there are already some terminals that use this RAM, Samsung's new design will put everything at once on a single chip, which is certainly what the manufacturers want.
This will allow virtually all manufacturers of mobile terminals can have 2GB of RAM on the market. In today's mobile phone sector, 1GB of RAM has become the standard. And it's a high figure, since only a year ago was the standard 512MB. If everything goes the same way in 2013 to see phones with 2GB of RAM will be as usual.
Add more RAM means a faster multitasking and processing more efficient, with the ability to have many more applications open at once. A number of 2GB of RAM means being able to take handfuls of applications open and running simultaneously without the mobile phone suffer slowdowns or problems of any kind.
The new Samsung memory technology will not only have 2GB on each chip, but these chips themselves are thinner and more efficient energy use thanks to a 30nm design factory. Samsung says the phone with 2GB of RAM will become 13% of the market in 2012, but in 2013 the figure will rise dramatically to 50%. By 2014 the forecast is even more positive for the 2GB of RAM. This has already led to people from referring to the successors of smartphones as superphones, although it is possible that the term does not change.
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the agency linked to the Department of Defense United States that is responsible for developing research projects related to the U.S. Army. The structure of the agency is quite large and has the support of companies, universities and research centers across the country with which develops projects as PETMAN, AVATAR, forays into the world of Big Data or insect-cyborgs in which intend to install embedded systems. Given that the work of DARPA should reverse in the U.S. Armed Forces, the agency announced a new line of work and seeking to develop nanochips that can be implanted in the troops and monitor, at a distance, their vital signs.
Why monitor the health of the soldiers? The idea of DARPA is that this implant allows the control of any mission to detect, proactively, any enfedermedad the soldier to avoid having to perform, for example, a medical evacuation in the middle of a mission. Seen this way may at first glance may seem that research is novel because, today, there are multiple tele-assistance systems and remote patient monitoring but in the eyes of this DARPA research has much to offer and can make a before and after.
According to data provided by DARPA, most medical evacuations taking place in the front are derived from common diseases and injuries not caused in combat so that, by monitoring, could detect these mishaps occur long before, and Therefore, replacing its effective if necessary.
DARPA wants to develop this system on a chip that can be implanted in soldiers and also has the ability to transmistir information on vital signs and also to send data on their position or even his psychological state. The truth is that the project is quite striking and, frankly, is very close to the border of invasion of privacy, for example, when a soldier is on leave, going to the reserve or withdrawn.
