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Array-Based Memory May Put a Terabyte On a Chip

Posted by kdawson on from the need-ramback-now dept.

Lucas123 writes "A new type of flash memory, called array-based memory, could offer a terabyte of data on a single chip within the next decade by bypassing current NAND memory technology, which is limited by the miniaturization capability of lithography. According to the Computerworld story, start-up Nanochip Inc. is being backed by Intel and others, and over 11 years has made research breakthroughs that will enable it to deliver working prototypes to potential manufacturing partners next year. And by 2010, the first chips are expected to reach 100GB capacity."

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  1. USB 3.0 desperately needed here... by Zymergy · · Score: 3, Informative

    USB 3.0 or *something faster* will be required for devices this large in portable storage capacity.. USB 2.0 is ~480Mbps (theoretical max) and it would take forever to transfer a terabyte over USB 2.0.
    http://www.usb.org/usb30
    http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201807389

    1. Re:USB 3.0 desperately needed here... by merreborn · · Score: 3, Informative

      USB 3.0 or *something faster* will be required for devices this large in portable storage capacity
      10GigE is faster than USB3, and on the market right now.

      Problem solved.
  2. cantilever memory is decades old by davidwr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Memory device with dual cantilever means, United States Patent 5036490, IBM, published 07/30/1991. TFA talks about IBM's Millipede project, which looks like something similar.

    A better summary would have said "Improvements to cantilever memory hold promise for 1TB chips by 2018" or something similar.

    Wikipedia has some information on non-memory uses of micro-cantilevers.

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