Crunchgear reports about a breakthrough in flash memory production; a Japanese team of scientists have developed a technology that allows a 90% reduction in SSD size, while also reducing power usage and costs.
The full report can be read in The Nikkei; the chip supposedly uses radio communication instead of traditional copper interconnects between individual flash memory chips.
One of the researchers, Tadahiro Kuroda, also made headlines with a storage chip last year that was meant specifically for archiving data, promising a 1000 year storage life. I haven’t seen that chip hit the market yet, and I doubt this new SSD will be seen in stores anytime soon either. But if it does it has the potential to replace hard drives as the default storage medium for many computers.
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