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IMEC is a world-leading independent research center in
nanoelectronics and nanotechnology. IMEC vzw is headquartered in Leuven,
Belgium, has a sister company in the Netherlands, IMEC-NL, offices in the US,
China and Taiwan, and representatives in Japan. Its staff of more than 1600
people includes more than 500 industrial residents and guest researchers. In
2007, its revenue (P&L) was EUR 244.5 million. IMEC's More Moore research
aims at semiconductor scaling towards sub-32nm nodes. With its More than Moore
research, IMEC looks into technologies for nomadic embedded systems, wireless
autonomous transducer solutions, biomedical electronics, photovoltaics, organic
electronics and GaN power electronics. IMEC's research bridges the gap between
fundamental research at universities and technology development in industry. Its
unique balance of processing and system know-how, intellectual property
portfolio, state-of-the-art infrastructure and its strong network worldwide
position IMEC as a key partner for shaping technologies for future systems.
Further information on IMEC can be found at www.imec.be.
- Editor's comments:- in October 2008 said it had
started
new research activities on resistive RAM (RRAM) cells.
Resistive
switching memories are based on materials whose resistivity can be electrically
switched between high and low conductive states. RRAM is becoming of interest
for future scaled memories because of their superior intrinsic scaling
characteristics compared to the charge-based Flash devices, and potentially
small cell size (enabling dense crossbar RRAM arrays using vertical diode
selecting elements). RRAM is seen as a potential candidate to replace
conventional Flash memory and hence to push NVM technology towards the
(sub-)22nm technology node. e), RRAM cell scaling and RRAM integration in a
crossbar RRAM array.
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| Can You Trust Your Flash
SSD's Specs? |
Editor:- I've noticed is that
the published specs of
flash SSDs change
a lot -from the time a product they are first announced, then when they're
being sampled, and later again when they are in volume production.
Sometimes
the headline numbers get better, sometimes they get worse. There are many good
reasons for this.
The product which you carefully qualified may
not be identical to the one that's going into your production line for a
variety of reasons...
And here's another thing to worry about...
The
enterprise flash SSDs which you benchmarked yourself - may surprise you by
running much slower when deployed in your own applications due to
common "halo" errors which are implicit in the set ups of many
performance test suites which were originally designed for HDDs. ...read the article | |
