Category Archives: Memory

60th International Solid State Circuits Conference

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Dick James

Contributed by Randy Torrance The 60th International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) kicked off today. This is the largest annual integrated circuit conference in the world.  Today the educational sessions took center stage. I attended 2 of these: High-Bandwidth Memory … Continue reading →

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IBM surprises with 22nm details at IEDM

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Dick James

Monday afternoon last week at the 2012 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IBM discussed their 22nm SOI high-performance technology [1], aimed at servers and high-end SoC products. To an extent, this is an extension of the 32nm process, using epitaxial … Continue reading →

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ISSCC 2012 – Hynix eliminates dummy cells in 6F2 DDR3

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Chipworks

Contributed by Mike Christie. The International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) conference is in full swing. Chipworks is attending to track the newest ideas in circuits and chips for 2012 and are blogging a few notable highlights. Hynix presented a paper … Continue reading →

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Inside the Samsung 512 Mb Phase Change Memory

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Chipworks

Contributed by: Rajesh Krishnamurthy This blog posting follows up one comparing Samsung’s NAND flash with its PCM in the same phone. Phase change memory (PCM) combines the nonvolatile attributes of flash memory like NOR and NAND types, bit alterability, and … Continue reading →

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