Category Archives: MRAM

Future Memory: The MemCon Panel. What comes after NAND Flash and DRAM?

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

Just announced, there’s a pre-lunch panel at MemCon covering future memories. There are several new memory technologies that would usurp the thrones from DRAM and NAND Flash memory. Will any succeed? Come and hear the panel to find out. Jim … Continue reading →

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Want to know why SK hynix is placing its bets on three different alternatives to DRAM and Flash?

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

Last week at the Flash Memory Summit, Dr. Sung Wook Park spoke about memory. No surprise there, but there were several surprises in Park’s presentation. The first surprise popped up in the slide immediately following the keynote presentation’s title slide: … Continue reading →

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44Tbyte Skyera Skyhawk SSD employs Everspin MRAM as write cache

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

NAND Flash memory would be perfect for nonvolatile storage because except that Flash write speeds are slow enough to create a window of time when write transactions could be lost during a power failure. This problem is especially acute for … Continue reading →

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Friday Video: A personal invitation to Memcon from Sanjay Srivastava

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

Want to know why you need to be at Memcon this year? Here’s Denali Software founder Sanjay Srivastava to tell you why: Now go and sign up! It’s a free ticket and includes breakfast, lunch, and some goodies—not to mention … Continue reading →

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Fast update on STT MRAM vendor Avalanche Technology: They’ve been here since 2006

Posted on August 3, 2012 by

Alan Niebel, CEO of Web-Feet Research, commented via LinkedIn on yesterday’s blog post about STT MRAM vendor Avalanche Technology: “Avalanche has been in the STT MRAM race for over four years now. They are not late to the party, they … Continue reading →

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Who do you want to see at Memcon?

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

As the emcee for the Memcon event on September 18, I’ve been given the opportunity to personally invite a few, select exhibitors to the show and to cut them a very sweet deal. To do that, I’d like to know … Continue reading →

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Jim Handy, The Memory Guy, writes that Flash memory is dead…but perhaps not just yet

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

My good friend Jim Handy—who writes several blogs including The Memory Guy and The SSD Guy—recently published a blog titled “The End of Flash Scaling.” He writes: “Everyone knows that flash memory is about to hit its scaling limit – … Continue reading →

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