Upstart's 'FLASH KILLER' chips pack a terabyte per tiny layer

The Register ^ | 5th August 2013 | Rik Myslewski

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[ShadowAce]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This ought to give Moore’s Law a real shot in the arm.

[Bobalu]

I want my cheap 10TB thumb drives by Christmas, thank you :-)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am looking for a stock symbol;

If this works...we got a major revolution.

[Blue Highway]

Looks like lower prices and MUCH higher capacity SSD drives if this technology is legit.

[Paladin2]

With essentially unlimited storage, write once is fine.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Some people with money believe in it....25 million dollars for the startup.

[catbertz]

Specs sound awesome. I hope to see this tech make it to market.
Thanks for some great tech posts today btw!

[GraceG]

Holy bleepety !!!

I want a 32 TB disk drive....

Heck with the memory capacity on one these things you start approaching the neded memory to back up a facimile copy of a person’s conciousness, the only limit is the BCI...

[dynoman]

.

[edh]

“If this works...we got a major revolution.”

I agree 100% ... this would be outstanding for FPGAs ... no more external config proms + loads of storage for other fun features :-).

It’s *almost* the perfect memory (seems like read times were slower than DRAM even accounting for DRAM overhead, but who cares!!!! :-)

I may have missed this in the article, but do writes destroy the cell over time like flash?

[Paradox]

This is big, and somewhat disruptive actually. Of course, that all depends on if the hype is for real, but this looks awesome.

[erod]

Awesome hope it makes it to market soon, I want to rip blu rays!

[okkev68]

Blu Rays, nah. More porn!!! Blu Ray Porn, yeah!! Since it is not harmful or hurting anybody.:)

[edh]

Also, this is nothing compared to my 512 exabyte write-only memory. My solution is faster, cheaper, lower power and works forever.

[Ghost of SVR4]

The NSA is gonna LOVE these things...

[erod]

lol

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

NO!

I just finished looking thru the PDF

Lot's of good Info.

Not sure what the patent is about but I thought I saw the word nanotubes.....