SPhotonix heads to Hollywood in blockbuster action
Date: Friday 30th May 2025
Date: Friday 30th May 2025
5D Memory Crystal the unlikely hero in
Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Newark, Delaware, May 30 2025: SPhotonix has landed in Hollywood with its 5D Memory Crystal helping to save the day in Tom Cruise’s latest and last Mission Impossible ‘The Final Reckoning’. The plot centers on a showdown between humanity and The Entity (a form of AI) that needs to be destroyed and contained.
The Entity contains three technical elements: Luther’s poison pill, the Podkava source code capsule and the 5D optical storage device that traps the AI.
Naweed Zahir writing in High On Films, captures the description of SPhotonix’s tech perfectly:
“This is no standard SSD or magnetic hard drive - it’s a disc made of nanostructed silica glass capable of holding up to 360 TB of data per disc theoretically for billions of years.”
In the film, the 5D optical device contains the only of the The Entity and is held in a vault. As the final piece of the puzzle, once this is retrieved from the vault, The Entity is now completely severed from any ability to replicate or transmit. However, as Zahir concludes ‘And if Hollywood ever needs a sequel? Well…that drive is still out there. Waiting.’
Commenting on the star turn from their technology, SPhotonix CEO, Ilya Kazansky said:
“Being part of one of this year’s major Hollywood blockbusters that has a huge fan base was not necessarily on our 2025 bingo card yet seeing its use on the big screen is fantastic. It shows how applicable our 5D Memory Crystal technology is, although generally it is for good purposes."
“SPhotonix is an ideal partner for Hollywood studios and production companies for their required long term data storage needs. We can be stars both in front and behind the cameras. Our technology offers the most secure, durable and scalable data storage with 5D Memory Crystal's and we are on finishing straight to enabling this technology in future data centers.”
The 5D Memory Crystal utilises FemtoEtch™, nano etching technology to store up to 360TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter, revolutionising the shaping of data storage.
SPhotonix was founded upon over three decades of Prof. Kazansky’s research at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Center. The leading tech company hit the headlines recently when it announced that it had stored the human genome on a 5D memory crystal that can last billions of years. The revolutionary technology developed for that purpose is now being applied to create these groundbreaking optical elements.
Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Newark, Delaware, May 30 2025: SPhotonix has landed in Hollywood with its 5D Memory Crystal helping to save the day in Tom Cruise’s latest and last Mission Impossible ‘The Final Reckoning’. The plot centers on a showdown between humanity and The Entity (a form of AI) that needs to be destroyed and contained.
The Entity contains three technical elements: Luther’s poison pill, the Podkava source code capsule and the 5D optical storage device that traps the AI.
Naweed Zahir writing in High On Films, captures the description of SPhotonix’s tech perfectly:
“This is no standard SSD or magnetic hard drive - it’s a disc made of nanostructed silica glass capable of holding up to 360 TB of data per disc theoretically for billions of years.”
In the film, the 5D optical device contains the only of the The Entity and is held in a vault. As the final piece of the puzzle, once this is retrieved from the vault, The Entity is now completely severed from any ability to replicate or transmit. However, as Zahir concludes ‘And if Hollywood ever needs a sequel? Well…that drive is still out there. Waiting.’
Commenting on the star turn from their technology, SPhotonix CEO, Ilya Kazansky said:
“Being part of one of this year’s major Hollywood blockbusters that has a huge fan base was not necessarily on our 2025 bingo card yet seeing its use on the big screen is fantastic. It shows how applicable our 5D Memory Crystal technology is, although generally it is for good purposes."
“SPhotonix is an ideal partner for Hollywood studios and production companies for their required long term data storage needs. We can be stars both in front and behind the cameras. Our technology offers the most secure, durable and scalable data storage with 5D Memory Crystal's and we are on finishing straight to enabling this technology in future data centers.”
The 5D Memory Crystal utilises FemtoEtch™, nano etching technology to store up to 360TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter, revolutionising the shaping of data storage.
SPhotonix was founded upon over three decades of Prof. Kazansky’s research at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Center. The leading tech company hit the headlines recently when it announced that it had stored the human genome on a 5D memory crystal that can last billions of years. The revolutionary technology developed for that purpose is now being applied to create these groundbreaking optical elements.
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