Friday, October 23, 2009

Hardware updates

Micron boosts NAND flash endurance six-fold. Lucas Mearian. Computerworld. October 19, 2009.

Often techniques are used to increase flash memory performance, but they also cut the capacity by 90%. Micron says its technique to increase density also increases the number of times data can be written to the device.

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Engineers create material that could hold 1TB of data on fingernail-sized chip. Lucas Mearian. Computerworld. October 21, 2009.

Engineers have created a material that could hold a terabyte of data in a chip the size of a fingernail.

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