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Wozniak becomes chief scientist at storage company

The Woz will be a technical adviser for Fusion-io R&D

By Peter Cohen

February 5, 2009 12:00 PM ET

Macworld - Fusion-io announced today that Steve Wozniak, Apple Inc.'s co-founder, has joined the company as chief scientist. Fusion-io makes solid-state storage products aimed at businesses.

Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io manufactures the ioDrive, a PCI Express-based solid-state disk drive. Fusion-io claims the ioDrive is capable of performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity parallel to hard disks. The ioDrive is available in 80GB, 160GB and 320GB capacities. That device is serving as the basis of two additional products, the ioSAN and the ioXtreme.

The Woz was already on the company's advisory board, but as chief scientist, he will work as a key technical adviser to the Fusion-io research and development group.

"[Wozniak] will also work closely with the executive team of Fusion-io in formulating a company strategy that will accelerate the expansion of major global accounts," reads a statement provided by the company.

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