Ok, this one is not in the market yet, but it might soon be.
Engineers from the North Carolina State University have developed a system to store large amounts of data on their Ni-MgO chips, using nanotechnology.
90% size reduction
At the nanoscale, the engineers added Nickel (metal) to Magnesium Oxide (ceramic), which resulted in a material that contained clusters of 10 square-nanometer Nickel atoms.
Just for scale, a pinnhead measures 1 million nanometers!
The process is call selective doping, where an impurity is added to a material to change it’s properties.
This represents a very large reduction (~90%) in size when compared with today’s techniques, something that could greatly boost storage capacities.
“Instead of making a chip that stores 20 gigabytes, you have one that can handle one terabyte, or 50 times more data,” said Narayan the team leader, in a press release.
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