IBM breaks world record for fastest flash memory

IBM have claimed to have made a major breakthrough in flash memory.

IBM’s new project, quicksilver, breaks the 1 million input/output operations/sec barrier, and has supposedly increased performance by 250% compared to technology from Texas Memory System, which was previously the world’s fastest flash memory.

It is also 5% of the response time, 20% of the size and only needs 55% of the power.

Quicksilver combines solid-state flash memory with virtualization technology.

“Performance improvements of this magnitude can have profound implications for business, allowing two to three times the work to [be completed] in a given time frame for time-sensitive applications like reservations systems, and financial program trading systems, and creating opportunity for entirely new insights in information-warehouses and analytics solutions,” IBM said.

Solid-state is becoming more common, the Asus Eee PC featured a solid-state hard disk, which greatly helped in reducing the size, heat and power consumption of the Eee PC while also making it more shock resistant. IBM’s new technology will help improve laptops and netbooks like the Eee PC and will help make them faster, smaller, cooler and have more storage capacity.

IBM have not yet mentioned when this new flash memory will be for sale, however, it is expected to be for sale some time soon !