Sony concluded that the best way to promote the adoption of its technologies was to get into the content business, since content owners have a big influence over which technology standards live or die.

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So the light bulb technology that I supply is going to die.

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But what about the view held by some, particularly in the technology space, that companies have to grow or die?

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Dirty habits die hard and the only way to encourage auto makers to adopt clean technology is a short sharp shock in the fuel price.

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Often automakers let vehicles die on the vine by not redesigning the car to keep up with changes in style, technology or performance.

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Yet the Beatles remain the band that we can't live and let die, doomed to be recycled as fading photocopies of the original with every incremental improvement in music technology and significant anniversary until one day we can all look forward to high-definition holograms of John, Paul, George and Ringo performing "All You Need is Love" in our living rooms.

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This technology will enable a terabit (Tb) of data storage in a small package using just 8 semiconductor die (this is 128 GB since there are 8 bits per byte). 128 GB capacity may be a common capacity node for the next generation of flash memory based products.

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