Digital Home Thoughts: Breakthrough in SSD Memory Chip Stacking

"SSDs haven't found their way into the mass market yet, but a team of Japanese researchers is already trying to make them more worthwhile. The team claims it has developed a technology that helps to shrink the size of SSDs by no less than 90%, makes them cheaper and boosts energy efficiency by 70%."

I'm always a little wary of announcements that claim massive breakthroughs - and SSDs that are 90% smaller and 70% more power efficient certainly qualify for the "massive breakthrough" moniker - but this seems like it's based on an adjustment to the way the current chips are laid out, rather than a re-work of the chips themselves. Anything that can drive down the costs of SSDs is welcome in my book, and hopefully this technology will be part of accomplishing that.