South Korea Develops 8-nanometer flash memory component
Submitted by Bill Belew on Tuesday, 13 March 2007No Comment
A nanometer is equal to one-billionth of a meter or roughly one-12,000th the thickness of the average person's hair.
South Korea's Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), has developed a flash memory cell that can be built into a semiconductor chip that is just 8 nanometers.
The result –
"A fully developed tera-level NAND flash memory can hold 500,000 audio songs in an MP3 file format or record 1,250 DVD films and 1 million high resolution photos within a space equal to that of a person's fingernail."
That's an awful lot of information in an itty bitty living space.
Efforts are being made to transfer the technology to the civilian sector.
What would you do with a flash drive that small that could hold that much?
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