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  1. And pretty much on track for doubling every year.

  2. Can’t wait for the 128TB micro SD cards coming out next year at this rate!

  3. So could somebody explain why we can’t use these instead of hard drives and sdds on computers

  4. I once had an mp3 player that had 32mb of internal memory and could hold 12-17 songs on it with heavy compression. It also used some 17 pin or something printer type cord to attach to the computer.

    It had an SD expansion slot but I didn’t use it long enough to get one for it.

  5. They do make 512 micro SD.

  6. Gonna be all about the VHDL skills now!

  7. Moores law will apply until it doesn’t.

  8. Ooh! Now do 2023!

    Oh, wait…

  9. Is there a certain point where technology peaks? Or advancing technology slows down to a point where moores law is no longer true?

  10. This actually seems to outpace moores law.. 128 x 2^6 is 8192 or 8gb assuming the 1.5 year doubling time. Even with a 1 year doubling its only 64 gb. This would represent a doubling in capacity every 10.8 months. In reality I would bet that the 128gb card has more than 1024x as many transistors as it wouldn’t surprise me to see some basic error correction/redundancy in the larger card that wasn’t necessary at 128mb.

  11. Quantum optical microchips next…

  12. And that was 7 years ago.

  13. Moore’s law is dead.

  14. On my office wall – [1975 (8K x 16 bits)](https://i.imgur.com/YsYhoZz.jpeg)

  15. I just realised the red circle is actually a rubber band lmao

  16. Right, and the other impressive thing is just how *cheap* a 128 GB MicroSD card is these days. I can get one for under $20, shipped.

    In term of cost and size, these things are marvels!

  17. It has nothing to do to moore’s law.

    For example: 5TB holographic disc exists since the early 90’s but no one could afford it. So, comparing a 5TB holographic disc to a modern 5TB hard drive doesn’t mean anything about the moore’s law, it’s more about consumers and demand. You are just comparing the “case”, not the semiconductors itself.

  18. I don’t think two data points is enough to define a relation as Moore’s law with any certainty

  19. The acronym has also grown exponentially

  20. The number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. Named after former CEO Of Intel, Gordon Moore.

    I was more pointing out the obtuse joke, and if they showed a 512 it would show more truth to the fact that Moore’s law is slowing down that we have gone through two Moore’s cycles. Rather then using a picture of surpassed technology I can get for $16 on Amazon.

    And it’s referencing IC chips, not NAND flash.

  21. It’s actually two pics. – Mr. Pedantic

  22. It’s the extra branding that makes leaps like this possible.

  23. Lmao, 9 years and they only changed one letter

  24. Go watch [the part of Johnny Mnemonic where he’s doubling his capacity.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftzx_EdLV_s) Then realize you can hold this much data on a $30 flash card glued to your big toenail.

  25. Thanks for the red circle

  26. And yet cheap-ish laptops are sold with 64GB or less of hard drive space instead of far more than they could have for not much more money.

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