Storage Technologies
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Technology Map Detailed Contents June 2004
Recent Developments
- IBM and Infineon Promote Magnetic Memory to Replace Flash Technology
- Motorola Debuts A Prototype of A Nanocrystal Flash Chip
- Lexar Media Ships 4-Gbyte Compact Flash Card
- Researchers Package Semiconductor Chips in Three Dimensions
- IBM Turns Data-Storage Systems into Modules
- DRAM Market Makes Slight Gains
- IBM, HP, and Carnegie Mellon Develop Tangible Bits
Updates
Importance of the Technology
The Technology in Brief
- Bits and Bytes
- Error Correction
- CLV and CAV
- Magnetic Recording
- Hard-Disk Drives
- Tapes
- Optical Recording
- Semiconductor/Solid-State Technology
- Computer Storage and Consumer Electronics
- Components
Commercial Development Parameters
- Demand Factors
- General Constraints
- Competing Technologies
- Regulatory Factors
- Required Resources
- Synergistic Technologies
Areas to Monitor
- Mainstream Technologies
- Blue Lasers
- Three-Dimensional Storage
- Nanochip
- Holographic Storage Technology
- Spectral-Hole Burning
- Focused Charged-Particle Beam
- Digital Video Recorders
- E-Disks for Superfast Applications
- Miniaturization of Storage Technologies
- GIGAMO
- Potential Shift Beyond Binary Logic and Storage
- Magnetic Memory for Computational Logic
- Nanometer-Size Geometries for Storage Technologies
- Live Cells for Data Storage
- Organic Molecules for Information Storage
- Ultra-High-Density Storage Possibilities with Nanoscale Magnetic Sensors
Implications of Commercialization
- Higher Storage Densities
- Overcapacity
- Miniaturization
- The Late-Blooming CD-Rs and CD-RWs
- DVDs And DVD-RAMs
- Impending New Technologies
Market Development
- Hard-Disk Drives
- Optical Storage Technology
- Flash Memories
Applications
- Magnetic Storage Devices
- Hard-Disk Drives
- Tapes
- Digital Video Recorders
- Conventional Floppy Disks
- Advanced Floppies
- Storage Networking
- Optical Storage Devices
- Compact Discs
- CD-ROMs
- CD-Rs and CD-RWs
- Magneto-Optical Discs
- DVDs
- DVD-Video
- DVD-ROMs
- DVD-RAMs
- DVD-Audio
- Flash Memories
- Digital Cameras
- Portable Devices