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[Athanasios]

Ok, this is going to change things:

'Terabyte Thumb Drives Made Possible by Nanotech Memory'
http://www.wired.com...7/10/ion_memory

excerpt

Researchers have developed a low-cost, low-power computer memory that could put terabyte-sized thumb drives in consumers' pockets within a few years.

Thanks to a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale, researchers at Arizona State University say their memory is, bit-for-bit, one-tenth the cost of -- and 1,000 times as energy-efficient as -- flash memory, the predominant memory technology in iPhones and other mobile devices.

Edit:
Physorg article: http://www.physorg.c...s112379572.html

Edited by cnorwood, 29 October 2007 - 12:50 AM.

[Ghostrider]

Yeah, I read about that, pretty impressive. Too bad we are not talking about processing power though...

[Mind]

A similar jump for processors/logic chips would be nice, but this is still huge because of the potential energy savings. Data centers are starting to take up a noticeable amount of the world's electricity and fossil-fuel-derived electricity is not getting any cheaper.

[Live Forever]

Sweet, and I thought those 4 gig thumbdrives (flash drives, whatever) were good. (note: this comment will seem horribly out of date within 2 years, I am sure)