Latest Non-volatile random access memory Stories

FARMINGTON, Conn., Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The global market for embedded and standalone non-volatile RAM is poised for explosive growth in the next few years. Magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) and other non-charge storage-based memories including FeRAM continue to outperform charge-based semiconductor storage technologies such as SRAM, DRAM, NOR flash and NAND; but one challenge remains at the forefront: scalability and commercialization. Recent announcements, such...

WOBURN, Mass., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nantero, Inc. (www.nantero.com), the nanotechnology company pioneering the use of carbon nanotubes in the development of next-generation semiconductor devices, today announced the closing of an over $10 million Series D financing round. The oversubscribed round was led by two new strategic corporate investors currently engaged in strategic development and partnerships with Nantero. The round also includes existing investors, including...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced general availability of the Marvell(®) DragonFly(TM) platform, featuring DragonFly NVRAM and DragonFly NVCACHE. DragonFly is the storage industry's first intelligent NVRAM SSD accelerator - essentially a low-latency write-back cache running embedded software in a PCIe adapter form factor. Marvell is demonstrating DragonFly in booth #800-802...

GENEVA, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the world's leading supplier of EEPROM memories for electronic equipment, has introduced a new memory with a unique ultra-fast recording feature for storing important data during unexpected events. Its uses will include recovering system data when a sudden power failure occurs, and 'black-box' recorders that help identify...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new device that represents a significant advance for computer memory, making large-scale "server farms" more energy efficient and allowing computers to start more quickly.Traditionally, there are two types of computer memory devices. Slow memory devices are used in persistent data storage technologies such as flash drives. They allow us to save information for extended periods of time, and are therefore called nonvolatile...

MILPITAS, Calif., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Grandis, Inc. today announced that it has been awarded $8.6 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the second phase of a research project developing spin-transfer torque random access memory (STT-RAM) chips. STT-RAM is a next-generation, solid-state memory technology that is dense, fast, non-volatile and radiation-hard, making it ideally suited for defense applications. The first phase, supported by an award amount...

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems, the company setting new performance benchmarks in tiered NAS with its Demand-Driven Storage(TM) solutions, today announced an extension to its recently unveiled FXT Series. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090914/LA74693LOGO) The introduction of the new FXT 2700 tiered NAS appliance leverages the extreme random read performance of Flash SSD to meet the highest application demands of performance-oriented customers and is the...

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Emerging Memory Technologies http://www.reportlinker.com/p0167124/Emerging-Memory-Technologies.html Sometime in the next decade, both DRAM and flash memories are expected to face fundamental scaling limitations. In DRAM, new device structures will be required to overcome short channel effects and junction leakage in the array transistor. In order to maintain the...

Computers are getting smaller and smaller. And as hand-held devices "” from mobile phones and cameras to music players and laptops "” get more powerful, the race is on to develop memory formats that can satisfy the ever-growing demand for information storage on tiny formats.Researchers at The University of Nottingham are now exploring ways of exploiting the unique properties of carbon nanotubes to create a cheap and compact memory cell that uses little power and writes information at high...