[Year 12 SofDev] Terabyte thumb drive, anyone?

[Mark Kelly]

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.

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/10/ion_memory

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