The opposing magnetic orientations make the entire multilayer structure appear much thinner than it actually is. So small, high-density bits can be written easily on AFC media, but they will retain their magnetisation due to the media's overall thickness. IBM reckons that AFC will enable hard-disk drives to store 100Gb of data per square inch of disk area by 2003.
Boffins too can be twee, it seems.
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