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Hitachi Makes Breakthrough Contributed by Justin [Technology] Tue Feb 17 16:40:30 1998 EST From the rapidly-advancing-society? dept. Hitachi has made a breakthrough of their own, in a different kind of storage. Hitachi announced they have found a way to reduce the number of electrons needed to store a bit of information in a DRAM chip. The 128MB chips should be coming out soon, and will be perfected in the 16GB (*drool*) generation of chips. Read More... 13 comment(s)
Seagate Makes Breakthrough Contributed by Justin [Technology] Tue Feb 17 15:28:31 1998 EST From the buncha-really-tiny-mirrors dept. A division of Seagate Technology, Inc. has announced a new way of increasing disk drive capacity density. Quinta has disclosed key parts of their technology, which they call Optically Assisted Winchester (OAW) technology to make a practical magento-optical disk that is capable of holding 40GB/square inch. The new technology uses mirrors, a new servo system, and other methods to allow these large capacities.
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