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A Brit boffin at IBM’s Almaden Research Centre has won a Finnish prize for spintronics research which led to a thousandfold increase in disk capacity. The €1m (£824,400) Millennium Technology prize has been awarded by the Technology Academy of Finland to Stuart Parkin, an IBM Fellow at Almaden where he manages the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Spintronics

    Enabling a bright future in government PR

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    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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      Re: Spintronics

      No, that's "spindronics". You are confused.

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  2. Gordon 10

    Thats stretching it a bit.

    Fair play to the guy for getting this prize, but Im not sure Spintronics meets the first prize criteria.

    •Awarded to groundbreaking technological innovations that enhance the quality of people’s lives in a sustainable manner

    Groundbreaking yes, but how precisely has it enhanced our quality of life in a sustainable manner?

    I could see Flash meeting those criteria but not a slightly denser hard drive.

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    1. Swarthy
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      Re: Thats stretching it a bit.

      "Slightly" denser? 1000-fold improvement is slight? I bet your boss loves it when you ask for a slight increase in pay.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Thats stretching it a bit.

      First time I've heard three orders of magnitude described as "slightly".

      I'd happily have a "slightly" higher salary on that basis.

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