SYSTEM MEMORY SOLUTIONS: Blogs
By Luigi Ternullo, Virage Logic Corp. Currently the market is seeing that an increase in bandwidth requirements is driving the adoption of DDR3 DRAMs. DRAM devices are now considered to be a commodity with prices being driven by consumer supply and demand, typically by the PC market. There are a number of factors that can affect the cost associated with DRAM components, including performance...
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By Joanne De Peralta, BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. IDC has concluded in its report released in June 2008 that the deployment of Solid State Drives (SSDs) in enterprise computing will pick up by 2010. It has forecasted that enterprise-computing applications will account for most of the SSD revenue by 2011, up from 12% in 2007.
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By Joanne De Peralta, BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. In the latest report published by Web-Feet Research, several factors were cited to be the key drivers in pushing the SSD market’s growth in the next four years. These include the proliferation of Multi- Level Cell technology, the continuous increase in market share by enterprise storage users and the growing demand for embedded flash...
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By Joanne De Peralta, BiTMICRO Networks The release of Apple’s MacBook Air, Lenovo Thinkpad and Dell Latitude Notebooks that are all equipped with solid state disks (SSD) have created a strong buzz in the computing industry. Debates of whether or not the era of SSDs has finally arrived have stimulated activity in quite a number of forums. The advantages of solid state disks over...
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By Joanne De Peralta, BiTMICRO Networks The release of Apple’s MacBook Air, Lenovo Thinkpad and Dell Latitude Notebooks that are all equipped with solid state disks (SSD) have created a strong buzz in the computing industry. Debates of whether or not the era of SSDs has finally arrived have stimulated activity in quite a number of forums. The advantages of solid state disks over...
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By: Marco Mezger, president of Memphis Electronic Inc. Price swings in the DRAM market are a well-known phenomenon and can be triggered by the smallest or oddest reasons. The 2007 DRAM price crash came completely unexpected.
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By Craig Rawlings, Kilopass Technology Inc. In the distant past, in techno years, semiconductor memories were discrete devices that stored information separately from other primary system functions. Over time, processors combined memory on-chip for improved performance, reduced size and cost, and lower power.
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By Duncan Bennett, Ramtron International I believe that as issues of the environment move to the forefront of our collective consciousness, the electronics industry worldwide is starting to focus on low energy consumption to market its products.
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By Keith Odland, Silicon Laboratories Inc. I have noticed over the past several years a very disturbing trend in the area of microcontroller documentation. I call it, the “datasheet gap”. It is an insidious problem that wastes more cumulative embedded designer cycles than writing your own TCP/IP stack.
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By Pierre Fazan, Innovative Silicon, Inc. There is only one way for Moore’s Law to proceed at its current pace in the memory world and that is for memories to be built on Silicon on Insulator (SOI). While some people claim that SOI cannot become a mainstream process technology, it is a must for technology innovation to continue at a rapid rate. This is because, SOI accommodates the...
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