Just in case you didn't catch this below, play it again Sam... Speaking from bitter experience... just about any reporter can make even the smartest person sound as dumb as a post. Sensational headlines are more interesting than idle speculation. Yes, this new technology involves the use of "nanowires on demand" but the surrounding electronics are pretty-much living in the now (transistors and the like). So it might be "nanotechnology" but its not all that. Interestingly, people have made real chips with this nanowire memory stuff on board - Qimonda and Sony come up in my digging - although the capacity is waaaaaaay (waaaaaaaaaay) lower than terabyte thumb drives/disc drives/anything you can buy now. The good(?) news is that these companies have shown that both MLC (two bits per cell as in 00,01,10,11) and multiple layers are at least feasible and this "suggests" that the kind of densities you would need to do a solid state drive are not unattainable (unless I was not incorrectly misinformed). Triple negatives aside, I think we are going to see a lot more activity in solid state storage from the disc drive makers, especially now that the Evil Empire (aka Samsung) has started pushing out Flash-based laptop storage.