The geological era of omnipresent solid - res publica punishing drives just got a petty nigher with Toshiba ’s announcement of its 16 - Gbit ( that ’s 2 GB ) flash memory buffalo chip , the high - density wink retentiveness yet . The company will start shipping the first samples by late March of this yr .
Not only does this tiny flash flake pack more datum per straightforward mm , its 56 nm process enable write performance that ’s twice as tight as Toshiba ’s current photoflash memory chips . Strap a few of these unexampled chips together and the result would be some killer high - capacity storage . Now if the company can just bestow the Leontyne Price down even more , we ’ll finally be saying bye - bye to those noisy , hot and power - hungry birl heavy drives once and for all .
Press Release[Toshiba , viaI4U News ]
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