According to a news published by International Herald Tribune, IBM developed a new material suited to build memory chips capable of meeting the world's growing appetite for storing digital music, pictures and video.
The new semiconductor alloy is derived from materials currently used in optical storage devices like CDs and DVDs, and could be an alternative to flash memory, the prevailing form of nonvolatile storage currently available. It must still determined if this technology will be cheap enough to start mass production.
Because of the compounds used in this technology, known as GST, or germanium-antimony-tellurium phase change materials, are routinely used to make inexpensive optical disks that are read from and written to with laser beams, and because of here at CDFreaks many people already know how much unreliable are cheap media to store data, I think that also extensive testing is necessary to determine the reliability of this materials to build optical storage systems.
