Microsoft has apparently firmed up its plans for a DNA-based storage device that it expects to be commercially available within about three years.
The software giant originally unveiled its research into last year; it described the technology being able to store the amount of data in “a big data center compressed into a few sugar cubes. Or all the publicly accessible data on the Internet slipped into a shoebox.
“That is the promise of DNA storage — once scientists are able to scale the technology and overcome a series of technical hurdles,” the company said in a 2016 blog post.
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