Japanese Researchers Working On SSDs The Size Of Postal Stamps
By Chris Weiss
I always thought stamp collections were about as cool as spewing anxiety-vomit all over your sweater when trying to speak to a member of the opposite sex (something that many stamp collectors likely did at one time or another), but if your stamp collection is actually made up of tiny SSDs, well then, it’s far cooler. In a nerdy sort of way.
Some Japanese researchers are working at drastically shrinking the size of solid states by a whopping 90 percent. In addition, the new SSDs promise to be 70 percent more efficient and cheaper to produce. The technology would make it possible to squash 1 TB worth of space into a the size of a stamp. Sounds a little too good to be true so far.
A cooperative of different organizations, including Toshiba and Keio University, headed by Professor Tadahiro Kuroda is leading the research. The chips boast data transfer rate of 2 Gbps. They’re expected in a hard version by 2012, but based on those lofty specs, we wouldn’t be that surprised if we never see them again. [via CrunchGear]
