With all the photos, videos, apps and tunes you have, the storage on your smartphone may not be enough. With that in mind, Intel is researching new ways to up the storage capacity in mobile devices and PCs without hurting the size or price of devices.
One effort underway at is to stuff more bits in a single cell, which could increase data storage capacity in mobile devices and PCs by as much as fourfold. Intel is trying to cram four bits in a storage cell, an improvement over the three bits that can be put in a single storage cell currently.
“This could enable denser devices in a broad range of mobile and compute applications”, said Bill Leszinske, vice president of strategic planning and marketing for non-volatile memory solutions at Intel, in an email.
