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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
A Real-World Example of How Error Correction Codes are Critical in Microcontrollers

A Real-World Example of How Error Correction Codes are Critical in Microcontrollers

How exactly do error correction codes work and how do they affect the integrity of an MCU? A new ECC-protected Arm Cortex-M4F MCU from Maxim Integrated serves as a real-world example.


News Jun 23, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Quasiparticles Found to Have a Critical Role in Future Applications for Quantum Computing and Memory Storage

Quasiparticles Found to Have a Critical Role in Future Applications for Quantum Computing and Memory Storage

Discerning the properties of tiny quasiparticles is a significant step toward developing new types of electronic components.


News Jun 23, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Intel’s AI Portfolio Shows How Designs Must Gear Up for Real-Time Processing

Intel’s AI Portfolio Shows How Designs Must Gear Up for Real-Time Processing

With processing demands on data centers higher than ever before, designers should be aware of how hardware- (and software-) based AI may have increasing prominence in their designs.


News Jun 22, 2020 by Adrian Gibbons
Hackers Often Target Flash Memory. New NOR Flash Devices Introduce Extra Layers of Protection

Hackers Often Target Flash Memory. New NOR Flash Devices Introduce Extra Layers of Protection

In a move that shows the power of the Infineon-Cypress duo, the companies introduce what they term the "world’s most advanced, secured NOR Flash memory."


News Jun 16, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Expect a Memory Revolution in 2020—It’s a Big Leap from DDR4 to DDR5

Expect a Memory Revolution in 2020—It’s a Big Leap from DDR4 to DDR5

The leap from DDR4 and DDR5 is no incremental development. We're looking at a leap from standard frequencies of 2400 MHz to 4800 MHz.


Micron Digital Claims to Have Eliminated Drifting in IMUs

Micron Digital Claims to Have Eliminated Drifting in IMUs

The company claims that they have developed a drift-free inertial measurement unit (IMU), which would be the world’s first if true.


News May 11, 2020 by Luke James
Bioelectronic Transistors: Enabling a New Range of Capabilities With Biocompatible Electronics

Bioelectronic Transistors: Enabling a New Range of Capabilities With Biocompatible Electronics

Researchers at Columbia University’s (CU) School of Engineering and Applied Science have published their bioelectronics research findings. We look at the first of their two papers, which discusses their organic, biocompatible transistor technology.


News May 07, 2020 by Sam Holland