Despite the pandemic, 2020 was a monumental year for space exploration. And pivotal to each mission's success at the circuit level was radiation-hardened memory devices.
December 21, 2020 by Tyler Charboneau
According to IC Insights, DRAM was the biggest IC product category for 2020 with sales of $65.2 billion, followed by NAND coming in second at $55.2 billion.
December 10, 2020 by Luke James
In what the company has described as a breakthrough in flash memory, performance, and density, Micron has shipped the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND.
November 17, 2020 by Luke James
As 5G speed and storage demands collide with the end of Moore's law, chipmakers are turning to multichip packaging to save space and power.
October 26, 2020 by Steve Arar
US chipmaker Intel is selling part of its NAND memory chip business to SK Hynix for $9 billion in a deal that will see the South Korean semiconductor supplier become the world’s second-largest flash memory chipmaker.
October 22, 2020 by Luke James
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.
October 08, 2020 by Jake Hertz
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.
September 22, 2020 by Luke James
This week, Microchip announced the release of a 4Mbit EEPROM chip—more than double the capacity of the previous largest on the market.
August 26, 2020 by Jake Hertz
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.
August 11, 2020 by Steve Arar
Using van der Waals materials, USC researchers have made a breakthrough in non-volatile memory based on ferroelectric tunnel junctions.
July 27, 2020 by Jake Hertz
The new DDR5 standards may revolutionize the modern data center.
July 23, 2020 by Jake Hertz
What is magnetic skyrmion? And how might it be a key to more power-efficient magnetic memory?
July 02, 2020 by Jake Hertz
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."
June 16, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
How does Micron's hefty memory hardware portfolio qualify them for this shift?
April 29, 2020 by Cabe Atwell
Effectively storing data remains a key issue in modern information systems and a challenge for electronics engineers who need to design devices with the thought of robust data storage as a primary concern.
April 15, 2020 by Biljana Ognenova
In this article, we will look at a proposed non-volatile DRAM and how it compares to current memory technologies.
February 14, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
The K32 L2 MCUs are based on the Arm Cortex-M0+ core and feature multiple low-power modes.
December 24, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
As smart technology grows, developers are looking for more flexible network protocols. Here are some ways companies are combining, developing, or expanding protocols to broaden IoT applications.
October 10, 2019 by Hannah DeTavis
Toshiba's newest family of SLC NAND memory products focuses on high transfer rates and providing an alternative to NOR memory.
September 27, 2019 by Gary Elinoff
The adoption of PCIe Gen4 and USB 3.2 interface technologies shows how controller chips are trying to match the capacity and speed of flash memory they serve in SSD designs.
August 27, 2019 by Majeed Ahmad
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