Some of these capabilities are not new in and of themselves, he says, but tight integration with storage and compute coupled with ease of use and programmability will be.
Hybrid hard drives combine NAND flash and magnetic disks, simplifying storage-element integration for OEM customers and providing a host of end user benefits: superior performance, responsiveness, lower power consumption, greater operating shock tolerance, and data protection.
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Of course, there are huge integration and storage issues that will need to be addressed.
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Improvements in the technology and wider integration into storage systems allow users to transform the capability from a science project into real solutions that can be deployed and utilized easily.
"This means traditional packaging for batteries has given way to a much more flexible approach that allows all kinds of new design and integration possibilities for storage devices, " said Prof Ajayan.
By embedding energy-storage materials into existing structures, this sheet technology would allow for ubiquitous storage and delivery of electric power and potential integration of clean energy into nearly every corner of our daily lives.
Factor in the Google Now integration and 100GB of free Google Drive storage for two years and this latest Chromebook is a winner.
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That would be pretty decent for the specs we know so far: 4.5-inch qHD IPS gapless display, MSM8225Q quad-core chip, dual-SIM support, an eight-megapixel main camera (which produced reasonably good photos, from what we could see), a two-megapixel front-facing camera, and Baidu cloud service integration with 15GB of storage for life, plus another 15GB free for one year.
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Today the company is also announcing integration to Microsoft SkyDrive, expanding its current storage offering of DropBox, Box and Google Drive.
The engineers next demonstrated the possibilities of their techniques by creating the essential components of digital integrated systems: arithmetic circuits and sequential storage, as well as the first monolithic three-dimensional integrated circuits with extreme levels of integration.
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