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.

Comments

Typo?

[Ranma21]

That has to be a typo...

Incredulity?

[schmidt349]

Let me get this straight-- the hard drive manufacturers can barely come up with 500GB of storage on a single 3.5" drive and they claim to be releasing a memory-card with multi-TERABYTE storage? Either this thing has insanely high memory density or it's the size of a small Third World dictatorship, to say nothing of its cost.

Have there been any other canards to come out of Taipei in recent years? Perhaps this is just a ploy to arouse interest in their trade show; I for one don't really believe it.

Re:Incredulity?

[nz_mincemeat]

The format would probably contain enough memory space to address terabytes of pr0n, umm, I mean data.

How they actually pull it off would be interesting... beowulf clusters anybody? :p

Re:Incredulity?

[gl4ss]

yeah very new.

not.

if you think that you can trust the headline to tell you anything expect the field of which the article is of then _you_ are new here. as such, if something seems unbelievable or amazing in the article the logical answer is that the headline is worded poorly(in a way that it's misguiding, which is actually worse than any headline at all) as with the 1000 other articles before it.