Internettarife Flohmarkt Magazin Heftarchiv English Pages Benchmarks c't-Projekte Leserforum Red. Various newspapers and magazines have reported the achievements of Oslo-based Opticom, a company which conceivably could upset the entire industry with their mammoth memory made of polymers.
Polymers are the stuff that panty hose and plastic bags are made of.
The first series product of so-called organic memory should be on the market this coming year. If these speculations are valid, the computer world is on the brink of a revolution. The Norwegians are promising a price which is far below that of established products. The entire memory branch could eventually have to call it quits. The radical jettison of components which use a relatively large amount of electricity and produce large amounts of heat would lead to completely new concepts in design, such as paper-thin computers, which can be rolled up to fit in a jacket pocket.