Elpida, Sharp work on REram memory chip
Baku, October 14 (AZERTAC).Elpida Memory and Sharp will work together on a next-generation ReRAM memory chip for commercialization in 2013, reported The Nikkei business daily. The Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM)is a product that holds potential to replace the Flash memory currently used in mobile phones and MP3 players and to serve as a universal storage medium - that is, memory that can behave as Flash, DRAM or even a hard drive.
The ReRAM chip consumes less power and is capable of writing data 10,000 times faster than NAND flash memory, which is widely used in mobile devices, the business daily said.
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo and other chip equipment makers will join Elpida and Sharp in this effort, the business daily added. The research group at the University of Tokyo claims that when ReRAM is used as the cache memory of an SSD (solid state drive), it is possible to reduce power consumption by 97% and to increase tolerable bit error rate, which is an indicator of operation reliability, by 260%.
Mass production, which will probably be handled by Elpida, is expected to begin as early as 2013, the paper said.
Other news in this section
