Taiwanese Firms To Launch a 2 Terabyte Memory Card

Krafty Koder writes "The Register is reporting that a consortium of Taiwanese firms are to launch a 2 Terabyte memory card at the Taipei International Electronics Show (Taitronics) on the 8th of October, with mass production expected to start next year. The card will measure 3.2 x 2.4 x 0.1cm according to this DigiTimes.com report" The reports say that this is supposed to be a "new type" of card, so the details are still quite sketchy. Offical unveiling will happen in early October.

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FibreChannel

[bhima]

I'd settle for a FibreChannel to 4 or 8 port SATA bridge board, by itself.

So I didn't have to spring for all "enterprise" options that vendors are so proud of.

hmmm...

[Polkyb]

Imagine a RAID array of these babies... Attached to my Beowulf cluster...

:-)

Almost big enough...

[pandrijeczko]

...for Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Re:A terabyte memory card uses a LOT of power

[Idarubicin]

It's also time to start considering the possibility that Taiwan will possibly be invaded and occupied by the Communists from the mainland at some point within the next five years. This will, if it happens, disrupt manufacturing design and shipping for years to come.

Why would it disrupt manufacturing, design, and shipping for years to come?

There would just be some fast footwork in the Senate, a Presidential edict or two, some bafflegab from the State Department, a treaty-signing photo-op, and suddenly buying all that hardware from the Chinese government is nice and legal. What do you think Silicon Valley is paying all those lobbyists for?

You weren't thinking there would be trade sanctions against China--even if they invade Taiwan--were you? They'd have to invade California before the US government would upset that many multinationals.

If I were an American politician, I would suggest to the US State department that the USA would only guarantee to provide an efficient co-defense of Taiwan if Taiwan relocates a significant number of IC fabs and design centers to the USA employing primarily American workers.

And why would the Taiwanese choose to do that? If they move their important infrastructure to the United States, that reduces to zero the already-tenuous incentive for the United States to provide any defense at all...

Re:A terabyte memory card uses a LOT of power

[chris_mahan]

Yeah except that a hostile takeover by the prc would leave taiwain in ruins, and all the smart one would have GTFU (got the freak out) a couple weeks before

Plus, the chinese would pull a Mao on the remaining Taiwanese and there'd be casualties in the millions.

This, by the way, would mark the beginning of the end for china. The US and the rest of the world would boycott the living daylights out of them, and after we have killed 10 million prc troops with our advanced technology, sank 90% of all prc ships, and wiped their airforce out, they'd have a hard time containing the internal backlash. Which means they would have to crack down internally and block foreign media. This would bring back the good old days of communistic-nationalism.

They will not invade taiwan, because they can't.

And they know it. The only way they can get it back is too cozy up with us and lull us into giving it back to them.

Of course, they don't realize what tenatious little bastards we are.

The other problem is that if they try and fail, Taiwan will declare independance and there is nothing anyone in PRC will be able to say.

And they know that too.