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How Do You Make an ReRAM Work?
During this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) I learned some very valuable information about memories built using crosspoint matrices. Since ISSCC is a conference at which...
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IEEE Spectrum: Did Bad Memory Chips Down Russia’s Mars Probe?
The IEEE Spectrum published an interesting article postulating that Russia’s recently-failed Mars probe may have suffered from bad memory chips. According to the Spectrum article the Russian...
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The End of Flash Scaling
Everyone knows that flash memory is about to hit its scaling limit – it’s right around the corner. We’re ready for it because it’s been right around the corner for more than a decade now. It’s so...
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A New Way to Build Phase-Change Memory (PCM)
An acquaintance recently brought to my attention an article in R&D Magazine about some pioneering research on phase-change memories or PCM. The researchers’ findings hold a lot of promise....
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Micron PCM Enters Mass Production
After years of prototyping Micron Technology claims to be the first to introduce production volumes of Phase-Change Memory, or PCM. This memory, also known as PRAM, has long been positioned as a...
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Alternative Memory Technologies Patiently Wait For Market to Explode
Lane Mason of Objective Analysis recently shared with The Memory Guy an article he wrote for the 4 April 2007 Denali Memory Report covering Phase Change Memory (PCM or PRAM.) It looked like something...
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Fundamentals of Memory – Free Online Course
Some time ago The Memory Guy was asked by Numonyx (later acquired by Micron) to put together an online course for EE Times on memory technologies, explaining how each one works and where it is used....
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Memory Issues in Space & Medical Applications
The Memory Guy was recently asked about using memories in a satellite. What would be a good technology to use in a space application? The problem with space is that there is a lot of radiation....
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IBM Jumps on the “New Memory” Bandwagon
At a technical conference hosted by the IEEE this week IBM announced the results of nearly a decade of research in which its scientists have been investigating the emerging technology known as “Phase...
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Original PCM Article from 1970
For a number of years The Memory Guy has wanted to find a copy of the 1970 article, published in Electronics magazine, in which Intel’s Gordon Moore and two authors from Energy Conversion Devices, Ron...
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Alternative Memory Technologies Patiently Wait For Market to Explode
Lane Mason of Objective Analysis recently shared with The Memory Guy an article he wrote for the 4 April 2007 Denali Memory Report covering Phase Change Memory (PCM or PRAM.) It looked like something...
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Fundamentals of Memory – Free Online Course
Some time ago The Memory Guy was asked by Numonyx (later acquired by Micron) to put together an online course for EE Times on memory technologies, explaining how each one works and where it is used....
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Memory Issues in Space & Medical Applications
The Memory Guy was recently asked about using memories in a satellite. What would be a good technology to use in a space application? The problem with space is that there is a lot of radiation....
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IBM Jumps on the “New Memory” Bandwagon
At a technical conference hosted by the IEEE this week IBM announced the results of nearly a decade of research in which its scientists have been investigating the emerging technology known as “Phase...
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Original PCM Article from 1970
For a number of years The Memory Guy has wanted to find a copy of the 1970 article, published in Electronics magazine, in which Intel’s Gordon Moore and two authors from Energy Conversion Devices, Ron...
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Latest White Paper: New Memories for Efficient Computing
There has been a lot of discussion in the trade press lately about new memory technologies. This is with good reason: Existing memory technologies are approaching a limit after which bits can’t be...
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Extending the Write/Erase Lifetime of Phase Change Memory: Part 1- PCM...
This is the first of a new line-up of Memory Guy posts by Ron Neale. In this 4-part series Ron takes a look at the recently-published analysis by a team from IBM and Yale University (Wiley:...
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Extending the Write/Erase Lifetime of Phase Change Memory: Part 2 – A More...
This is Part 2 of a short Memory Guy series which will continue to explore the possible future impact on PCM memory performance, especially write/erase endurance, building on the results of the...
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Extending the Write/Erase Lifetime of Phase Change Memory: Part 3 – Failure...
This is Part 3 of a short Memory Guy series which continues to explore the possible future impact on PCM memory performance, especially write/erase endurance, building on the results of the IBM/Yale...
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Monatomic PCMs: A New Direction
Until now designers of PCM devices have tried to make PCM meet their expectations by experimenting with an almost infinite number of possible multi-element glass compositions, in order to tinker with...
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