[Semiconductor Engineering, LINK] The next-generation memory market is heating up as vendors ramp a number of new technologies, but there are some challenges in bringing these products into the mainstream.
For years, the industry has been working on a variety of memory technologies, including carbon nanotube RAM, FRAM, MRAM, phase-change memory and ReRAM. Some are shipping, while others are in R&D. Each memory type is different and is targeted for specific applications, but they all promise to displace one or more of the conventional memories in the memory/storage hierarchy in today’s systems.
For years, the industry has been working on a variety of memory technologies, including carbon nanotube RAM, FRAM, MRAM, phase-change memory and ReRAM. Some are shipping, while others are in R&D. Each memory type is different and is targeted for specific applications, but they all promise to displace one or more of the conventional memories in the memory/storage hierarchy in today’s systems.
Memory hierarchy—DRAM/SRAM and flash have opposing
characteristics that leave a gap to be filled by storage-class memory.
Source: Lam Research
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