SSDs are great, but they’re expensive in large capacities and apparently they’re too large as well. A group of scientists from Keio University claim to have found a way to reduce the size of SSDs by at least 90% which makes them cheaper and increases energy efficiency by 70%.
The technology breakthrough is said to be able to produce a 1TB SSD in a form factor roughly the size of a postage stamp. The prototype pictured above is about that size and made of 128 NAND chips with a single controller chip. Transfer speeds are said to be 2Gb/s.
The research team expect their new technology to be commercializable by 2012.
via CrunchGear
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