Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.

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The day before the official start of the conference, Skyera, a company offering a all solid state primary storage system announced that it was partnering with Everspin to provide MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory) as part of its offering.

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For a limited time only, ORIGIN PC is giving away a FREE solid state hard drive of up to 256GB to customers who purchase an ORIGIN system.

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In January, EMC released its Symmetrix system, which incorporates a combination of spinning disks and solid-state drives built by STEC.

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The development of new technology solutions, channels and open standards to support operating system and other programing that takes advantage of the use of solid state storage for traditional storage as well as non-volatile memory will change the face of our technical culture for many years to come.

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Examples: selling solid-state hard drives on certain notebooks, or offering laptops preloaded with a Linux operating system called Ubuntu.

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