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NANOTECHNOLOGY TO SPELL END FOR DISK DRIVES?

NanoMarkets LC, a nanotechnology industry market research and analysis firm, announced the release of a new white paper titled, "Opportunities in the Nanostorage Market" that pinpoints key trends and market drivers that are creating the need for nanostorage. It also discusses some of the initiatives within companies such as IBM, AMD, Cypress Semiconductor, Intel and Motorola. The paper is drawn from NanoMarkets' upcoming report on nanostorage and nanomemory markets that will be released later this month.

According to NanoMarkets, nanotechnology may soon have the solution to the burgeoning need for data storage. Today, the lowest hanging fruit for nanotechnology is materials. But as nanotubes become commoditized, the "next- hanging fruits" will be found in the memory sector. Here, at last, is where nanotechnology can move beyond mere technological curiosity and begin the true nature of its calling as a technological enabler, disruptor and moneymaker. NanoMarkets believes that Nanostorage offers the best chance of bringing computing to the next level -- and along the way provide some real opportunities for new business, new markets and new profit. The paper goes on to say that nanostorage will bring about innovation that will lead to nano- enabled databases that will move data warehousing and data mining to new realms, the end of disk drives as we know them and new opportunities for web content businesses.