Turns out the humble SSD might be useful for more than storing your favourite games. Researchers at Harvard and Samsung have teamed up to see if memory technology, the basis for speedy storage such as SSDs, might also be handy for storing a map of the human brain.
This isn’t just a case of dragging a picture of a human brain onto a folder, either. We’re talking mimicking the human brain’s neuron structure with non-volatile memory structures. There is, however, a lot of talk of copying and pasting.
The idea is you can copy the brain’s ‘neuronal connection map’ using a nanoelectrode array developed by the researchers, which they say is capable of recording a large number. This is then pasted to a high-density, three-dimensional network of solid-state memory—of which Samsung sees itself as the master of the craft.
