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Targeting Automotive, Infineon Spins Industry’s First LPDDR Flash Memory

Targeting Automotive, Infineon Spins Industry’s First LPDDR Flash Memory

To meet the new demands of automotive zonal architectures, Infineon marries flash memory with an LPDDR interface to enable more performance and scalability than xSPI NOR flash.


News Apr 20, 2023 by Jeff Child
Touting Energy Efficiency, AMD Announces 4th-gen EPYC Embedded Processors

Touting Energy Efficiency, AMD Announces 4th-gen EPYC Embedded Processors

At Embedded World this week, AMD has unveiled its 4th-gen EPYX Embedded processors. The chips offer energy efficiency along with some embedded-specific features.


News Mar 15, 2023 by Jeff Child
STMicro Brings Its Free STM32 MCU Edge AI Toolset to the Cloud

STMicro Brings Its Free STM32 MCU Edge AI Toolset to the Cloud

The new cloud-based version includes a GitHub-based model resource, and remote access to a “board farm” to remotely benchmark edge-AI models on STM32 MCU boards.


News Jan 31, 2023 by Jeff Child
Happy 75th Birthday to the Transistor—the Device That Changed the World

Happy 75th Birthday to the Transistor—the Device That Changed the World

75 years ago, the transistor was born. Its invention launched modern electronics as it moved from the building block of ICs, then microprocessors, and beyond.


News Dec 23, 2022 by Jeff Child
Intel Reveals Plans for a Trillion-transistor Processor by 2030

Intel Reveals Plans for a Trillion-transistor Processor by 2030

At IEDM 2022, Intel tipped its ambitions to build a processor comprising one trillion transistors by 2030.


News Dec 12, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
MCU Advances Focus on Neural Processing, RRAM, and Payment Security

MCU Advances Focus on Neural Processing, RRAM, and Payment Security

MCU vendors continue to up their game. Latest chips serve up neural processing for the edge, innovations in on-chip non-volatile memory, and tech for secure biometric card payments.


News Dec 10, 2022 by Jeff Child
Historical Engineers: Dr. Fujio Masuoka, the Unsung Father of Flash

Historical Engineers: Dr. Fujio Masuoka, the Unsung Father of Flash

For the 35th anniversary of the invention of flash memory, here is a commemoration of the Father of Flash.


News Dec 02, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
TSMC to Make 3nm Semiconductors at Arizona Fab

TSMC to Make 3nm Semiconductors at Arizona Fab

To meet worldwide demands, the largest semiconductor manufacturers are ramping up capacity. Among them, TSMC plans to build 3nm chips at its Arizona fab.


News Nov 28, 2022 by Lianne Frith
5 Online EE Resources I WOULD Have Been Thankful For

5 Online EE Resources I WOULD Have Been Thankful For

On this Thanksgiving Day, Jeff wonders what his EE college days would have been like if he’d had access to All About Circuits’ rich online resources.


News Nov 24, 2022 by Jeff Child
Weebit Nano and SkyWater Churn Out First Batch of ReRAM Demo Chips

Weebit Nano and SkyWater Churn Out First Batch of ReRAM Demo Chips

SkyWater produced the first silicon wafers integrating Weebit’s embedded ReRAM, marking a major milestone toward ReRAM commercialization.


News Nov 16, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
Samsung’s 8th-gen Vertical NAND (V-NAND) Enters Mass Production

Samsung’s 8th-gen Vertical NAND (V-NAND) Enters Mass Production

The new generation of V-NAND marks a major memory milestone for the industry, with Samsung claiming highest bit-density.


News Nov 10, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Ferroelectric RAM (F-RAM) Hits the Market With Infineon’s EXCELON Family

Ferroelectric RAM (F-RAM) Hits the Market With Infineon’s EXCELON Family

Infineon has announced a new family of ferroelectric RAM—an energy-efficient, non-volatile memory solution designed for data-critical applications.


News Nov 03, 2022 by Aaron Carman
Memory Technology Roadmap Unveiled at Samsung Tech Day 2022

Memory Technology Roadmap Unveiled at Samsung Tech Day 2022

Samsung recently unveiled its company roadmap, including plans to pursue 1.4nm, new memory technologies, and a "total solution fabless."


News Oct 11, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Samsung Employs its V-NAND Tech for Gaming NVMe SSD

Samsung Employs its V-NAND Tech for Gaming NVMe SSD

Designed for gaming and creative applications, Samsung’s new SSD leverages its latest V-NAND technology.


News Aug 26, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Researchers Worldwide Come Together on “NeuRRAM” Neuromorphic Chip

Researchers Worldwide Come Together on “NeuRRAM” Neuromorphic Chip

The teams have developed the first compute-in-memory chip to tackle a range of AI applications at lower energy and higher accuracy than other platforms.


News Aug 22, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Take Our 2022 EETech Global Engineering Survey

Take Our 2022 EETech Global Engineering Survey

Join your engineering community peers and take our EETech 2022 Global Engineering Survey. You’ll get a summary of the results once they’re released. And you’ll be entered for a chance to win an Amazon card prize!


News Aug 09, 2022 by Jeff Child
The Memory Market Heats Up With SK hynix’s 238-layer 4D NAND

The Memory Market Heats Up With SK hynix’s 238-layer 4D NAND

Last week, Micron launched the production of a 232-layer 3D NAND. Now, SK hynix is claiming "highest 4D NAND flash" at 238 layers.


News Aug 05, 2022 by Jake Hertz
 Peaking at 232 Layers, the Sky’s the Limit for Micron’s 3D NAND

Peaking at 232 Layers, the Sky’s the Limit for Micron’s 3D NAND

The vertically-layered memory technology from Micron marks the industry’s highest areal-density NAND chip.


News Jul 29, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Researchers Unveil Liquid-based Memory Concepts for Mass Storage

Researchers Unveil Liquid-based Memory Concepts for Mass Storage

Researchers at IMEC have divulged two proposed schemes for implementing liquid-based memories. Could they provide a future replacement for NAND flash mass storage?


News Jul 23, 2022 by Darshil Patel
Rambus Spins DDR5 DIMM Interface ICs for Data Center Servers

Rambus Spins DDR5 DIMM Interface ICs for Data Center Servers

Adding SPD (serial presence detect) hub and temperature sensor ICs to its DDR5 portfolio, Rambus now has a complete chipset offering for DDR5 DIMM interfacing.


News Jul 19, 2022 by Jeff Child