Memory
Rambus to acquire Memory Interconnect Business from Inphi
Rambus has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the Memory Interconnect Business from Inphi for $90m. The acquisition includes all assets of the Inphi Memory Interconnect Business including product inventory, customer contracts, supply chain agreements and intellectual property.
Memory cards target cost-sensitive applications
The F-50 series is an extension to Swissbit’s existing F-60/F-600 CFast 2.0 card portfolio. It is available at Rutronix. This new series delivers up to 500/330MB/s read/write performance for cost sensitive applications. The new F-50 products complement the high performance, high endurance durabit F-60 devices by offering a DRAM-less product for cost sensitive applications with use cases that don’t require the extreme IOPS rate and end...
256M CMOS SDRAMs are offered in 86-Pin TSOP II packages
Alliance Memory has extended its offering of 256M high-speed CMOS synchronous DRAMs (SDRAM) with two x32 devices in the 86-pin, 400mm, plastic TSOP II package. Internally configured as four banks of 8M word x 32 bits, the high-density AS4C8M32S-6TIN and AS4C8M32S-7TCN provide reliable drop-in, pin-for-pin-compatible replacements for a number of similar solutions in industrial, commercial, medical and networking products requiring high memory band...
Server solutions for hyperscale data centres
A reference design that supports the burgeoning workloads of the hyperscale data centre; Integrated Device Technology (IDT) announces its collaboration with Cavium. The IDT DDR4 memory interface solutions are incorporated into the reference design, which is built on Cavium's ThunderX family of workload-optimized 64-bit ARMv8-based processors.
Sub-nanosecond operation of nonvolatile memory
The research group of Professor Hideo Ohno and Associate Professor Shunsuke Fukami of Tohoku University has demonstrated the sub-nanosecond operation of a nonvolatile magnetic memory device. Recently, the concept of IoT - a giant network of connected devices, people and things - has been attracting a great deal of attention.
How the memristor works at an atomic scale
In experiments at two Department of Energy national labs – SLAC and Lawrence Berkeley – scientists at HPE have experimentally confirmed critical aspects of how a new type of microelectronic device, the memristor, works at an atomic scale. This result is an important step in designing these solid-state devices for use in future computer memories that operate much faster, last longer and use less energy than today's flash memory. T...
sureCore delivers 40nmULP memory compiler
sureCore Ltd., the low power SRAM IP leader, has announced the immediate availability of its TSMC 40nmULP process technology memory compiler. The new compiler facilitates utilisation of sureCore's recently announced 40nm Ultra Low Voltage SRAM IP that effectively operates at a record-setting 0.6V across process voltage and temperature.
Graphene could increase storage of magnetic memory
Heat flow in atomically thin materials is strongly directional and now research from A*STAR indicates that this property could be employed to improve the performance of computer hard drives. Hard drives store data by using magnetic fields to change the properties of a small section of a magnetically sensitive material. Decreasing the size of this section increases the drive's capacity but also increases the size of the magnetic field required for...
Toshiba announces PCI Express & DDR3 SDRAM IP subsystems
Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the immediate availability of PCI Express and DDR3 SDRAM IP subsystems developed in conjunction with Northwest Logic, a leading provider of high-performance, easy-to-use, silicon-proven PCI Express and Memory Interface IP cores. These subsystems are available on custom LSI platforms, including ASIC and FFSA.
Low-power CMOS SRAMs offer fast access time of 55ns
Expanding its line of legacy low-power CMOS SRAMs, Alliance Memory has announced an 8M IC (512k x 16-bit) in the 48-pin 12x20mm TSOP-I package. Available from a very limited number of suppliers and recently discontinued by another manufacturer, the AS6C8016-55TIN operates from a single power supply of 2.7 to 3.6V and offers a fast access time of 55ns.