Cell phone computing is around the corner! Four Gig storage the size of a thumbnail has arrived. Intel is forging ahead in the quest for miniaturized storage, and the first products featuring these new chips, named ZP-140, will be on the market in January. They are thumbnail size chips and weigh no more than a drop of water! These solid state drives have standard control electronics built in enabling other chips to be added without controllers for a total storage capacity of 16 gigabytes. This is enough to run some operating systems on a tiny chip!
Did you know that flash drives tend to lose their charge and thus wear out with time? I never really thought about it, which makes me want to take another look at the age of my current memory cards. In these new chips, new information can be added and erased at least 100,000 times which is about the top of the standard for the current chips that last anywhere from 10,000 to 100,00 charge cycles.
This new technology is Intel’s answer to Samsung’s chip which is in the Apple Ipod Nano and the IPhone.
Ever wonder where the term “flash” came from? The technology was invented by Dr. Fujio Masuoka in 1984 while working for Toshiba. His colleague, came up with the term because the process of erasing information reminded of him of the flash of a camera. Kind of like “gone in a flash”.
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