The new chip that will let an iPod store 500,000 songs - Times Online
Scientists at IBM say they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs - or 3,500 films - and cost far less to produce.
In a paper published in the current issue of Science, a team at the company’s research centre in San Jose, California, said that devices which use the new technology would require much less power, would run on a single battery charge for “weeks at a time”, and would last for decades.
So-called ‘racetrack’ memory uses the ’spin’ of an electron to store data, and can operate far more quickly than regular hard drives.
…BM said the technology was still “exploratory” at this stage, but that it expected devices which used it to be on the market within ten years.
Moore’s Law will continue to work, even when the technology he based it on - microchips - isn’t the prime player.
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