China unveils world’s fastest hard drive. Is ‘Poxiao’ the dawn of new flash memory?

Rice-sized memory device breaks speed barrier once thought impossible, capable of erasing and rewriting data 100,000 times faster than before. — SCMP

In a world fixated on the race for superior artificial intelligence (AI), Chinese scientists have cracked the code to memory speeds once deemed impossible – with a device smaller than a grain of rice.

Researchers at Fudan University on Thursday unveiled “Poxiao”, or Dawn, the fastest flash memory ever created, which can erase and rewrite data in 400 picoseconds. One picosecond is one trillionth of a second.