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A Smaller Future

A Smaller Future. Maintaining Moore’s Law, as applied to hard drives, into the 21 st century. John Stephenson. Moore’s Law. 1964 Gordon Moore Doubling time Not stopping. Moore’s Law of Hard Drives. Has been extended to aerial density Doubling time: 12 months Current drives

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A Smaller Future

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  1. A Smaller Future Maintaining Moore’s Law, as applied to hard drives, into the 21st century John Stephenson

  2. Moore’s Law • 1964 Gordon Moore • Doubling time • Not stopping

  3. Moore’s Law of Hard Drives • Has been extended to aerial density • Doubling time: 12 months • Current drives • Maximum capacity is 66GB per disk • 3 disks  200GB

  4. Coming to a close • IBM’s ‘Pixie Dust’ • Future disks: 133GB / disk • Increasingly difficult to fit more data onto the same disk • Far away from the dreams for many TB of storage

  5. IBM: Project Millipede • Works like a punch card • Smaller holes: 10nm • Thin polymer film • 1000s of read/write tips

  6. Details • How does it write? • 400°C tips • How does it read? • 300°C tips • Write/overwrite 100,000x • Lower energy demands

  7. Room for Expansion • Without ‘Pixie Dust’ 25 Gb/in2 has been realized • With it, 100 Gb/in2 is expected this year. • With Millipede, currently 200 Gb/in2 • Allows for smaller sizes • Especially important with laptops (40GB) • Future density • 500-1000 Gb/in2

  8. The Future is Small • Project Millipede is going to out compete magnetic media • It is going to keep Moore’s Law alive, well into the 21st century

  9. Questions?

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