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Ramtron International Corporation, headquartered in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and
markets specialized semiconductor memory, microcontroller and integrated
semiconductor solutions used in a wide range of product applications and
markets.
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Ramtron
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- in May 2009 -
Ramtron said its
revenue declined
26% in the 1st quarter of 2009 compared to the year ago period. A
sharp decline in orders from the automotive market was cited as a principal
cause.
Ramtron also announced an update on a legal suit related to
in-field failures of one of its F-RAM memory products in an unspecified
application. (In July 2008 Ramtron confirmed that specific batches of product
had failed due to manufacturing
process
defects in one of its partners fabs.)
When readers ask me about
when other technologies are going to replace
flash in
SSDs - I cautiously remind
them that there have been many occasions in the past when initially promising
technologies didn't manage to deliver on grounds of scalability or long term
reliability.
In
May 2009 - Ramtron
announced that its FRAM has been selected to store the virtual block-to-sector
map in a new flash SSD design by SBS
Science and Technology. The use of hybridizing memory technologies - for
example using faster RAM-like non volatile memory in some parts of the SSD
device and slower flash-like memory in the bulk storage arrays to accelerate
performance inside SSD caches was predicted by
StorageSearch.com several years ago
in various articles including
the Flash SSD Performance
Roadmap.
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