New startup Woz

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, can not ignore the "call of the motherboard" and decided to again plunge into the business. He says that he had a good rest and he liked to calmly observe the development of technology. Now, after two years of vacation, Steve is back to work again. Another project Wozniak was a startup Fusion-io , which is engaged in the design of data storage systems based on flash memory chips. They make compact SSD memory modules (the size of a deck of cards) that can be inserted directly into server slots. One such module worth $ 10,000 is in no way inferior to a separate storage system for $ 100,000.

When Apple was founded, Steve Wozniak was considered one of the most creative engineers in Silicon Valley. It was he who came up with the elegant design of new personal computers, in which the external beauty was combined with an effective arrangement of components. Actually, at Fusion-io, he will deal with approximately the same engineering matters, but only with servers and storage systems, and not with a PC.

Unlike past projects, Wozniak is not the founder of Fusion-io, but joined this three-year-old startup as a chief scientist. He already enters the board of directors there and, obviously, is a co-owner.

via NY Times