Most applications that require a microcontroller also require somemechanism to store settings that will be remembered even when power isremoved. For example, a radio that forgets its station presets ...

Non-volatile memory is becoming more complicated at advanced nodes, where price, speed, power and utilization are feeding into some very application-specific tradeoffs about where to place that memory ...

In a research breakthrough that has broken records in the semiconductor industry, scientists at Infineon Technologies have built the world's smallest non-volatile flash memory cell. The new memory ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PMC® (Nasdaq:PMCS), the semiconductor and software solutions innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store big data, today established a new ...

Designed for harsh and rugged applications, the SVME/DMV-570 flash, non-volatile mass memory module provides solid-state, non-volatile memory without the need for ...

The folks at Lattice Semiconductor have announced that automotive versions of their non-volatile 90nm Flash-based LatticeXP2 FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) have been characterized and qualified ...

Much like the end of Moore’s Law, the scaling challenges of flash memory have been a significant issue for several years. Embedded flash memory is reaching its limits as technology nodes for embedded ...

SMART Modular Technologies has announced the availability of its Non-Volatile CXL Memory Module (NV-CMM) for Tier 1 OEMs, adhering to the CXL 2.0 standard. This module combines non-volatile DRAM, ...

The search continues for new non-volatile memories (NVMs) to challenge the existing incumbents, but before any technology can be accepted, it must be proven reliable. “Everyone is searching for a ...

A long-running problem in the computer world is that DRAM is the fastest memory available but also volatile, so it can't hold onto its data when power is shut off. This makes it useless for data ...

The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This is the third in a set of four blogs about projections for digital storage and memory for the following year that we have been ...