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Non-Volatile Memory Surges Ahead as Arm Spin-Off Develops CeRAM and FeFETs

Non-Volatile Memory Surges Ahead as Arm Spin-Off Develops CeRAM and FeFETs

This week, Arm announced that it will transfer its entire CeRAM IP portfolio to a new spin-out from the company, Cerfe Labs, while taking minority ownership stake in the new company.


News Oct 08, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Fabric-Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Relies on Hot Pressing and Tape Casting

Fabric-Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Relies on Hot Pressing and Tape Casting

Engineers in South Korea have developed a process that could lead to the realization of embedded wearable electronics.


News Oct 03, 2020 by Luke James
Open-Source NVMe Controller Tech Can Help Academics Develop Memory Devices

Open-Source NVMe Controller Tech Can Help Academics Develop Memory Devices

NVMe controller technology can be difficult and expensive for academics to get their hands on. Now, a new open-source option may help EE students prototype new storage devices.


News Sep 22, 2020 by Luke James
DDR4 Makes Headway Even with DDR5 Modules on Its Heels

DDR4 Makes Headway Even with DDR5 Modules on Its Heels

With no definitive release date for DDR5, DDR4 is making significant strides.


Data Buffers to the Rescue for Bandwidth-Burdened Server and Cloud Applications

Data Buffers to the Rescue for Bandwidth-Burdened Server and Cloud Applications

This week, Renesas has released their newest product: a data buffer for DDR5 aimed at empowering a new generation of high-performance computing applications.


News Sep 11, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Arms Shakes Up the Future of Computational Storage With New 64-Bit Processor

Arms Shakes Up the Future of Computational Storage With New 64-Bit Processor

The new Arm Cortex-R82 looks to address the imminent challenges of mass data creation and processing needs.


News Sep 09, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Microchip Releases the Largest Capacity EEPROM Chip Available to the Market

Microchip Releases the Largest Capacity EEPROM Chip Available to the Market

This week, Microchip announced the release of a 4Mbit EEPROM chip—more than double the capacity of the previous largest on the market.


News Aug 26, 2020 by Jake Hertz
IBM Unveils Its First 7nm Processor, Complete With “Memory Inception”

IBM Unveils Its First 7nm Processor, Complete With “Memory Inception”

This week, IBM announced its new POWER10 processor, the 7nm successor to POWER9.


News Aug 18, 2020 by Jake Hertz
How Does Non-Volatile Memory Express Reach Such High Data Transfer Rates?

How Does Non-Volatile Memory Express Reach Such High Data Transfer Rates?

Using PCIe protocols, NVMe addresses the issue of data rate bottlenecks—proving to be even faster than SAS and SATA protocols purpose-built for hard disk drives.


News Aug 11, 2020 by Dr. Steve Arar
Safety Starts at Design: Stacking Up Five IP Camera Reference Designs

Safety Starts at Design: Stacking Up Five IP Camera Reference Designs

How do the surveillance camera reference designs from five big names—Renesas, NXP, Qualcomm, Microchip, and TI—compare to each other?


News Aug 07, 2020 by Nicholas St. John
With Data Centers Ever Strained, a New Storage Processor Skyrockets Flash Performance

With Data Centers Ever Strained, a New Storage Processor Skyrockets Flash Performance

Pliops has announced its storage processor, which they claim increases flash performance by 10 times and improves cost and performance by 90%.


News Jul 31, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Army-Funded Research Makes Breakthrough in Non-Volatile Memory Technology

Army-Funded Research Makes Breakthrough in Non-Volatile Memory Technology

Using van der Waals materials, USC researchers have made a breakthrough in non-volatile memory based on ferroelectric tunnel junctions.


News Jul 27, 2020 by Jake Hertz
JEDEC Releases DDR5 Standards—And the Push for Widespread DDR5 Adoption is On

JEDEC Releases DDR5 Standards—And the Push for Widespread DDR5 Adoption is On

The new DDR5 standards may revolutionize the modern data center.


News Jul 23, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Magnetic Anisotropy Used for Robust and High Performance Data Storage

Magnetic Anisotropy Used for Robust and High Performance Data Storage

A joint research group has observed for the first time how special spin-lattice interaction in iron-platinum thin films cancels out the thermal expansion of its crystal lattice.


News Jul 22, 2020 by Luke James
Newly Introduced Ultrathin Boron Nitride Films Further Efforts in Miniaturizing Electronic Devices

Newly Introduced Ultrathin Boron Nitride Films Further Efforts in Miniaturizing Electronic Devices

A new study led by researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has unveiled ultrathin boron nitride films for next-generation electronics.


News Jul 11, 2020 by Luke James
AI Chip Strikes Down the von Neumann Bottleneck With In-Memory Neural Net Processing

AI Chip Strikes Down the von Neumann Bottleneck With In-Memory Neural Net Processing

The von Neumann Architecture, which has been a staple in computer architecture, may soon find itself less useful in the world of artificial intelligence.


News Jul 10, 2020 by Jake Hertz
SK hynix Announces Mass-Production of its High-Speed DRAM, ‘HBM2E’

SK hynix Announces Mass-Production of its High-Speed DRAM, ‘HBM2E’

The new device supports a staggeringly high 460 gigabyte per second bandwidth.


News Jul 03, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
FPGA Roundup: New Contenders Hone in on Memory, Size, Power, and Even AI

FPGA Roundup: New Contenders Hone in on Memory, Size, Power, and Even AI

Three newly-released FPGAs can tell us a lot about the direction of these devices in the industry.


News Jul 02, 2020 by Dr. Steve Arar
A Flower-Shaped Magnetic Process Opens Doors for Energy-Efficient Memory Devices

A Flower-Shaped Magnetic Process Opens Doors for Energy-Efficient Memory Devices

What is magnetic skyrmion? And how might it be a key to more power-efficient magnetic memory?


News Jul 02, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Experimental Chips Using 2D Metal Material That Store More Data and Require Less Energy

Experimental Chips Using 2D Metal Material That Store More Data and Require Less Energy

Layers of atomically thin 2D metal form the basis of a novel memory technology not based on semiconductor science.


News Jun 30, 2020 by Gary Elinoff