United Technologies is a fuel cell leader, and David Parekh, director of the United Technologies Research Center, says that expertise has allowed the company to improve the energy density of a standard flow battery by 10 times, albeit on a small scale.

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The new standard will enable next generation systems to achieve greater performance, significantly increased packaging density and improved reliability - with lower power consumption.

ENGADGET: JEDEC announces final DDR4 RAM specification

The test chip will enable the correlation of the simulation models to the FinFET process and contains test structures, standard cells, a PLL and embedded SRAMs. The memory instances include high-density SRAMs designed to operate at very low voltages and high-speed SRAMs to validate the process performance.

ENGADGET: Samsung reveals its first 14nm FinFET test chip, should offer substantial power improvements in future silicon

With industry-wide challenges in scaling current areal density technologies, this new platform allows HGST to design seven-platter drives in a standard 3.5-inch form factor that will cost-effectively extend the capacity and cost-per-gigabyte curve for many product generations to come.

ENGADGET: HGST develops helium-filled, high-capacity hard drives: no, they won't float away