Sunday, February 17, 2008

Nanochip

http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/20192/

So now a days flash memory is growing. It is growing so much that laptops are beginning to replace traditional hard drives with them. This replacement isn’t just limited to laptops either, larger memory is also bringing better mp3 players. Regardless, perhaps the next step in memory storage is the Nanochip. The two major advantages it has over flash is the amount it can store and it’s price. Stefan Lai, a scientific advisor to the Nanochip stated, “Eventually, the devices could store terabytes' worth of data, he says. That's likely out of the reach of flash-type memory.” Of course there is a lot of work left to get this on the market. But the Nanochip is just a link to smaller but larger memory in which the transportation of data becomes easier and easier.

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