Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall

That dire warningcomes from SanDisk ’s CEO Eli Harari . The capacity of flash chips has doubled 19 times in 14 class to 64 billion bits , currently . But Harari allege they ’re “ running out of electrons . ”

The unforesightful write up is that the act of electron crammed at bottom of twinkling storage now make them less accurate as they get older — they “ start to smear”—and that Harari thinks they can only bivalent chip capacity two more times . When they go from the current 64 - billion - act chip to the 256 - billion - minute ( 32 GB ) one , that ’s the end .

There might be some redemption in stacking the layers , but it ’s not ready for prime time yet . Check out more of the gruesome number over there : [ Bits ]

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