Did it strike anyone else as intellectually dishonest (or really sloppy?) that that entire article seemed to come from a parallel reality where SSDs don't exist?<p>I get that this would be an improvement over current SSDs. But to not even mention them while at the same time saying thigns like:<p>"In a first step, one could envisage attacking the Flash market and replacing the USB sticks with something much faster..."<p>"One could imagine the technology being useful for both small mobile devices (such as smartphones) and large systems (such as servers)."<p>Yes! If only there were some sort of non-volatile, low power, shock resistant, storage technology which were orders of magnitude faster than rotating hard disks! We could call it some sort of Solid State Drive, and it would totally change the storage market!