Recent Blogs

DRAM product lifecycles are probably longer than you think!

October 5, 2011

Anyone who designs in a memory product into their system has to be concerned about product lifecycles. For consumer products, this is rarely an issue…the system is replaced by a new and ‘better’ system in a few years, which can use a totally different memory.

DRAM Status Report 3Q11

September 22, 2011

Below is a table showing the status of various DRAM makers’ technology and fab status about the end of the current month, and end of 3Q11.

New Memory Technology Market Share? Under 5% in five years is my guess.

September 19, 2011

For the past many years, the industry has ‘seen the end coming for the traditional NVM scaling roadmap’, and has been hyping and exploring alternative technologies that will replace floating gate NAND, which are now estimated to ‘….surely face a hard stop in scaling at about 15nm.’

News Spotlight

- The latest happenings in the memory arena

IBM, Micron to build hybrid memory with TSVs

December 9, 2011

Micron Technology Inc's hybrid memory cube (HMC) will become the first commercial CMOS manufacturing technology to employee IBM Corp.'s through-silicon via (TSV) process, the companies said Thursday (Dec. 1).

IEDM: SuVolta transistor operates down to 0.4-V

December 9, 2011

Startup SuVolta Inc has announced that its novel transistor technology, dubbed PowerShrink, operates down to 0.425-V, approximately 300-mV below conventional processes. PowerShrink is based on a DDC (deeply depleted channel) transistor manufactured in epitixially grown doped silicon on the surface of a conventional bulk CMOS wafer.

Lattice picks up SiliconBlue for $62 million

December 9, 2011

Lattice bids its way into significant FPGA presence with $62 million offer for SiliconBlue.

Chipmakers losing billions on DRAM as iPad dominates

December 1, 2011

Did you know that Apple ships more iPads than Dell ships PCs? Chipmakers that have bet their business on the global demand for DRAM chips know this and it's freaking them out.