How small will they go?

[STEVE]

Just thought I'd share this with everyone coz I thought it was pretty amazing!  A tiny ScanDisk memory card (256 MB) for my mobile, will miniaturisation ever find a limit?

[Codyhtml]

they will probably get pretty small like miciro scopic think about it they could invent a chip some day that si so small that it is imbeded in your finger and you can't see it and you just put your finger to a scanner think abput it like 1 TB in a finger that woukd be cool ;D ;D

[Guest Alun]

I bet you the die's even smaller.

I remember reading an article in a magazine back in 1995 about how they've managed to squeeze 1GB onto a postage stamp sized magnetic tape I wonder how much data they you cram onto the same space today.

One of the problems today is the address bus width 32 bit computers are limited to a maximum of 4GB of address space, that's why 64-bit processors are slowly gaining ground.

[Kevin Weddle]

Interested in memory? Do a search engine on vitual memory and memory interleaving. I'm not a programmer but I picked these terms up in a book and found them quite interesting.

[fullyautomatic12]

hey i have that exact card, cept mine is a 512, they are so expensive when i start gettin into like 4-5 gigs

[Guest nanop]

Those r small, but when u find the ratio of size:memory or Memory:size probaly the top one would be the 60GB Ipod Nano.

Every heard about the 2.5 inch hard drive that can hold over 146GB! made by seagate.