Steve Wozniak Joins Fusion-io as Chief Scientist

This past fall, we first found out about Fusion-io, a company that aimed to essentially produce an SSD within a PCI-E card. As we found out soon after, it definitely has some bragging rights. Given the incredible bandwidth of the PCI-E bus, the top-end speeds were nothing short of amazing, with the absolutely only downside being the amazingly high-price (of around $3,000).

Well, if you doubted the company, you might want to take a look at them again. It was just announced that none other than Steve Wozniak has joined the company to become their chief scientist. This seems like an odd choice for a hardware company, but although Steve has dealt with a lot more software than hardware as of late, he’s had his share of hardware experiences in his day. He’s a tinkerer at heart, no question.

It’s also interesting to note that Wozniak isn’t new to the company, as he’s been on the company’s advisory board for the past few months. His choice to remain with the company stems from his belief that the company “is in the right place at the right time with the right technology“. Well, one thing’s for sure, and that’s that the product has huge potential. Now, let’s just fast-forward to the future where we can all have one of these in our desktop PCs…

“With the revolutionary technological advances being made by Fusion-io, the company is in the right place at the right time with the right technology and ready to direct the history of technology into the 21st century and beyond,” said Wozniak. “The technology marketplace has not seen such capacity for innovation and radical transformation since the mainframe computer was replaced by the home computer. Fusion-io’s technology is extremely useful to many different applications and almost all of the world’s servers.”