A Road Map for Technologies That Drive Consumer Storage [The Art of Storage]

The International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) is an effort initiated by the IEEE Rebooting Computing Future Directions Committee to create a road map for critical technologies that will impact the future of data processing. In addition to supporting computing technologies, these road maps will also influence the development of memory and storage in future consumer products [1], [2]. The IRDS includes a continuation and extension of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) International Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). This column discusses work done for the 2017 IRDS road map. The IRDS had workshops to revise the next version of the road map in November 2018.