The end of Moore's Law is expected to come to an end soon for memory chips. It gets harder to store and read data from smaller electron pools found in chips. Memory makers are spending big money to be the first to discover the newest technology. IBM has the lead as it has created a circuit as small as 20 nanometers, performs faster than flash memory, and uses less power. One of the challenges is whether it could be non-volatile, meaning can it retain the data after the power is off? I don't know how much smaller than 20 nanometers we can get but I believe technology will reach it's limit in the near future. How much more data storage, speed, and shrinking products do we need? It's probably more important for bigger organizations like NASA or maybe the military.
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