In a prior blog I talked about products and trends in digital storage and memory for consumer applications from the 2021 CES and related events. In this blog I will focus on material related to digital storage and memory to support advanced imaging such as volumetric video, automotive automation and to support processing at the edge and in big data centers. With so much remote entertainment and work during the pandemic, the cloud (big data centers) and content stored in the cloud has played an enormous role during in supporting consumer applications of all sorts.
Let’s first look at digital storage and memory to support the capture and display of more immersive video content. In particular, high resolution video images, captured with multiple cameras can be stitched together to provide a realistic 3D representation of object in the video stream. This volumetric…