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Researchers make storage breakthrough

Kirsten Doyle
By Kirsten Doyle, ITWeb contributor.
Johannesburg, 23 Feb 2009

Researchers make storage breakthrough

A Korean-US research team has developed technology that could increase computer storage capacity more than 10 000 times, in theory allowing 12 500 films to be stored on a single DVD, says Chosun.com.

The team consists of Park Soo-jin, a professor of nano-biochemical engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, and Thomas Russell, a professor at the University of Massachusetts.

In a paper published in Science, theyreported that by adopting a self-assembly method in which molecules take certain forms by themselves, they succeeded in increasing the capacity of storage media more than 10 000 times.

Nanotech promises dense CPUs, storage

Research developments published in Science have revealed that nanotechnology could improve computer performance and increase storage, respectively, reports Electronista.

A University of Pittsburgh research team has developed nano-sized transistors that are made using two ceramics etched with an atomic force microscope. The resulting circuits would be as large as an atom and much smaller than usual transistors. This breakthrough would let companies that refined the technology make chips substantially smaller or more complex than existing designs, including for processors and chip-based storage.

Simultaneously, a hybrid University of California, Berkeley and University of Massachusetts, Amherst team has invented a technique that can reliably create a nano-sized semiconductor film, which could be used to hold data.

Cloud computing ascends the mainstream

Last century most of the developed world plugged into the new electric grid, giving us high voltage on the wire with long-distance transmission, says The Age.

Now computers are set to make the big switch, transferring computer power and storage from hard drives to the 'cloud' - where everything happens on the Internet.

Banking analysts last year forecast that cloud computing could be worth $160 billion in the next few years.

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