Memories

Article (1)
  • How 3D integration will reshape the memory industry
    The memory semiconductor industry is about to go through a period of major technological changes as new integration trends and disruptive packaging technologies pave the way to the future growth of this industry …
Feature (2)
  • Making memory smaller
    The long-term trend that has persisted in the computer industry since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 has been for the hardware to become smaller and smaller. But scientists believe that conventional miniaturisation processes could soon reach their fundamental limits.
  • What's at the end of the rainbow?
    British scientists have revealed a system called 'trapping rainbows' that may be able to slow down, stop and even capture light
Product (16)
  • Renesas embedded flash memory
    Renesas has developed what it claims to be the first 40 nm memory intellectual property for motor vehicle real-time applications.
  • Transcend Information SDHC Class 10 UHS-I memory card
    Combining the Class 10 specification with the performance boost of UHS-I, Transcend SDHC Class 10 ultra high-speed memory cards are designed for high-end digital cameras and camcorders. Developed by the Secure Digital Card Association as part of its SD version 3.01 specifications, UHS-I is claimed to be the fastest category card available.
  • Transcend Information RDF8 USB 3.0 multicard reader
    Transcend Information has launched the RDF8 USB 3.0 multicard reader.
  • Fischer Connectors rugged flash drive
    Fischer Connectors has introduced the rugged flash drive, specially designed for safe transport and storage of sensitive data in harsh environments.
  • Microchip Technology ion and photo smoke-detector ICs
    What is claimed to be the first ion and photo smoke-detector ICs to offer alarm memory have been released.
  • Microchip Technology miniature single-I/O bus UNI/O EEPROM devices
    Microchip Technology has announced that its single-I/O bus UNI/O EEPROM devices are now available in miniature, wafer-level chip-scale and TO-92 packages, in addition to the 3-pin SOT-23 package.
  • Portable hard drives
    Iomega has released the eGo portable hard drive for Mac users, featuring multiple interface connections, an aluminium design, good ruggedness and a robust combination of software.
  • Memory microcontrollers
    Renesas has released the SH7216 group of 32-bit on-chip flash memory microcontrollers, the latest addition to the 32-bit SuperH RISC family.
  • Solid-state disks
    Sun Microsystems has introduced solid-state disks that will give users greater application performance, massive scale and value through the integration of the Solaris Operating System, Solaris ZFS and other open source technologies.
  • Digital data buffering
    AverLogic Technologies has introduced its high-performance FIFO (first-in-first-out) field memory chips designed to buffer audio/video/graphic digital data for a wide range of applications.
  • Mobile SDRAMs
    Integrated Silicon Solution has introduced the first members of its latest PowerSaver mobile SDRAM family with 128, 256 and 512 Mb mobile SDRAMs offered in x8, x16 and x32 configurations in TSOPII packages as well as BGA packages.
  • Memory cards
    Lexar Media has further increased the capacity of its Platinum II flash memory card range with the Platinum II 60x 16 GB secure digital high-capacity (SDHC) card and an 80x 16 GB CompactFlash card.
  • 16 GB flash drive
    Lexar Media has announced the hot red 16 GB capacity JumpDriveFirefly USB flash drive. It is PC and Mac compatible and comes in four different colours, each representing a different memory capacity.
  • EEPROM modules
    Microchip has announced a series of serial presence detect EEPROM devices that support the latest double data rate 2 (DDR2) DIMM modules used in PCs, as well as future DDR3 DIMM modules.
  • Notebook memory
    Kingston Technology claims to be the first to offer high-performance, low-latency DDR2-667 SO-DIMM notebook memory.
  • Mac memory kits
    Kingston has released DDR2-800 fully buffered dual-inline memory (FB-DIMM) specifically designed and validated for Apple Mac Pro workstations and Xserve server systems.
News (5)
  • All-optical switching moves closer
    An ultra-small and fast, electrically pumped all-optical memory on a silicon chip with record low power consumption has been produced by imec and its associated laboratory INTEC at the Ghent University.
  • Memory research
    Numonyx and Intel have demonstrated a 64 Mb test chip that has the ability to stack or place multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die, allowing memory devices to be built with greater capacity, lower power consumption and smaller.
  • Clear future for memory
    A group of scientists at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have fabricated a working computer chip that is almost completely clear — the first of its kind.
  • Memory research
    To explore solutions to overcome the scaling limitations of conventional flash memory, IMEC, a European research organisation, has started research activities on resistive RAM (RRAM) cells.
  • New partner for memory and video processing circuits
    Glyn is extending its distribution program with memory and video processing circuits from Averlogic Technologies, a semiconductor company with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan.
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