Engineers create fingernail-size chip that holds 1TB of data

[Mave]

Engineers have created a new fingernail-size chip that can hold 1 trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data -- 50 times the capacity of today's best silicon-based chip technologies.

The engineers, from North Carolina State University, said their nanostructured Ni-MgO system can store up to 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, "far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems."

The team of engineers was led by Jagdish "Jay" Narayan, director of the National Science Foundation Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures at the university.

The engineers made their breakthrough using the process of selective doping, in which an impurity is added to a material whose properties consequently change.

Source : PC World

 

[GPow69]

Just incredible.

Imagine, you could have like 10TB iPod Shuffles with 10 of these chips
50TB Nanos
100TB iPhones/iPod Touches

IS THIS TOO INCREDIBLE OR IS IT ME

 

[Maffia171]

Like i ever use the 32gb of my ipod

 

[Mave]

^ I could use over a TB in one iPod, trust me :T

I have
300+ gig TV-Episodes
500 gig movies
400 gig music
and
5 gig in iPod games

 

[GPow69]

Yeah but 100 TB?

I'm sure you could fit at least 100 Fingernails in an iPhone.

 

[[FF]TeddyBear]

I don't even use all of my 1gb on my ipod, so umm, yeh. Value for money??

 

[Mave]

Yeah but 100 TB?

I'm sure you could fit at least 100 Fingernails in an iPhone.

Hmm that IS much, but I could fill up a few tera for sure :T

 

[Impulse]

Now let's talk over the price....

 

[Andre]

I could use a TB as my HDD :

 

[GPow69]

You could use a fingernail for your HDD aparently


But yeah, so could I

 

[Impulse]

I have 1tb, I think it will be full in about 2months
Really need to keep downloading xD