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SSDs have a 'bleak' future, researchers say

That is all based upon present material science, fab process, and the related physics.

The semi-con industry has faced "brick walls" before, and the way that devices are made has changed and adapted.

Leakage flow has been an issue for a while now, and the industry keeps making strides.

Good science isn't based on assumptions purely on the status quo. I know, I've personally struggled with scientists that would insist something can't be because the state of the art indicated it couldn't, nevertheless, my personal research and data proved otherwise.

Look at the changes that have happened to the lithographic process.

SSDs don't have to run on the current state of the art NAND, anyways. 5 years from now who knows what fabs can produce.

I think this science team have myopia. Having worked with such people, I know that it happens.
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I have to agree. SSDs have a bleak future using current production and technologies. Then again, if the current production/technologies didn't limit them, they wouldn't be limited to what they are. (why else would OCZ not be pumping out 3Gb models?)

Similar arguments were made several years ago about the CPU clock ceiling. Manufacturers just figured out a better production method.

well we're getting close to the limit

»arstechnica.com/science/news/201···atom.ars

the end of moore's law might be coming in the next 10 years
now when will we get optical computing?

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Well, what I can say about it is that our nation's labs ARE working on research to take us beyond the state of the art. It is important that we, as voters, remember that financial support for the national labs system to help research for emerging technologies be supported strongly. The public are, generally, too simple minded and narrow minded about research. What happened in Waxahachie, TX, is an example of the voters failing to understand that our labs are where our future jobs come from. Since then we have experienced a brain drain that has moved to CERN in Europe.

Moore's law might have limits, but computing itself doesn't. One day there will be photonic computing and subatomic computing. It is up to us to support the great minds that discover these things. If there had been no Bell Labs, all our electronics would be invented and manufactured overseas, at least the current state of the art's destiny is still steered from the USA. Computing science CAN remain a strong, developing industry here in the USA, but we have to support the labs doing the research. You might be amazed what they are doing in places like Livermore CA, and Albuquerque NM.

We are at a tipping point RIGHT NOW. *IF* we want to influenced the destiny of computing and spin off industries, here in the USA, we need to ramp up significantly, our national research. But what are we doing? Raising college tuitions and shutting down labs. Asia and Europe will gladly take the torch if we let them.

There is a reason I vote as I do today, and I will leave it at that.
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