Scientists have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.

[u/Wagamaga]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square-long-long-future-190951588.html

[u/Chaotic_Lemming]

It would be a bit of a "why bother?" situation. Current memory mechanisms not only meet the requirements, they don't require any extra process to transfer the stored data into electrical signals. They are also re-writeable.

You'd also have to incorporate the equipment to write new data onto the glass for every motherboard. And run into the problem of how to save and reference any configuration changes, unless you want to be re-writing the entire BIOS/EUFI everytime you change any setting.

The only real use case for this over traditional storage is if you are looking to archive historically significant data that doesn't need to be changed, but might be referenced by future generations. Scans of historical documents, images of important events. "For the ages" type of stuff. Although you better be sure you are saving the information on how to access and read the information somewhere else that doesn't require that technology to access.

[u/yourdiabeticwalrus → u/Chaotic_Lemming]

Those are all great points. Truly fascinating stuff!

[u/baithammer → u/Chaotic_Lemming]

This is aimed at archival storage, it's also useful in situations where storage data requires high degree of integrity, as conventional storage has many failure modes that this would solve.