The future of Digital Imaging may be on-board memory
Imagine a future where your camera contains 2 Terabytes of onboard storage (or the equivalent of carrying 32 of the 64GB flash cards)… The camera could access the memory at optimal transfer speeds and the problems of card-swapping could be effectively eliminated.
OR
Maybe we get uncompressed HD video files written in real-time instead of having to hardware encode H.264 in order to save space. It’s not quite science fiction any more because CrunchGear is reporting a breakthrough by Toshiba that allows 1 TB SSD hard drives “as small as a postage stamp“!
I’m gob-smacked :-0
Read on for the CrunchGear report…
Coming soon: Postage stamp-sized 1TB SSDs
by Serkan Toto on February 11, 2010
SSDs haven’t found their way into the mass market yet, but a team of Japanese researchers is already trying to make them more worthwhile. The team claims it has developed a technology that helps to shrink the size of SSDs by no less than 90%, makes them cheaper and boosts energy efficiency by 70%.
The research group is comprised of people from a handful of different institutions, i. e. Toshiba or Keio University in Tokyo (where Professor Tadahiro Kuroda is the main person responsible).
The new technology makes it possible to produce 1TB SSDs that are as small as a postage stamp. The current prototype (pictured) is sized just like that and made of 128 NAND flash memory chips and one controller chip. It boasts a data transfer speed of 2Gbps and is based on radio communication, which (according to the researchers) leads to lower production costs.
A practical version is expected to be ready by 2012.
Via The Nikkei [registration required, paid subscription]
