Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at the Institute of Science Tokyo have announced a breakthrough in quantum error ...

Carbon code is different, says Svore. “We do not consider the Carbon code to be an LDPC code,” she says. Technically, Carbon code is a stabilizer code of the Calderbank-Shor-Steane variety, which is a ...

Quantum computing is still in its infancy, easily beaten by traditional computers. One of the biggest challenges? The fact that quantum bits — qubits — are much more fragile than the bits in silicon ...

High-density NAND flash memories are key components in the burgeoning consumer market. Applications are rapidly expanding beyond USB keys and MP3 players to cell phones, media players, and game ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) Working Group has updated its specification to include error correction. The ONFI rolled out its new ONFI 2. ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph.D.) and the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech, President: OBATA Makoto), collaborated with ...

The potential use of DNA in data storage applications has been in the HEXUS news several times in recent years. One of the big players in the field is Microsoft, which has invested quite a bit of ...

NAND flash memory underpins a vast array of modern electronic devices, yet its increasing storage densities and shrinking semiconductor geometries have exacerbated ...

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a type of error-correction code increasingly used in applications requiring highly efficient information transfer over channels with the presence of ...

Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and engineers with a series of challenges and conundrums. One of them relates ...