CNET on the crisis facing flash memory cards – it’s just getting harder and harder to fit more and more into less and less space – and some of the technologies that might solve the problem. They include ovonics, in which data is stored onto the same material used in DVDs; ferroelectric RAM, or FeRAM, which uses the position of atoms inside a crystal to store data; magnetic RAM, or MRAM, which uses spinning electrons; and using silicon nanocrystals instead of silicon dioxide as an insulator. We don’t care what they end up doing, as long as they make sure that someday it’ll be possible to fit 100GB onto a postage stamp.
