Intel to Sample Phase Change Memory This Year

Vikingod · Mar 9, 2007, 02:42 PM

Source: DailyTech
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This week Intel privately shared parts of it roadmap for memory technologies through 2008. Revealed was that Intel’s progress on phase-change memory, shortened as usually PCM or PRAM, will soon be sampling to customers with mass production possible before the end of the year.

Phase-change memory positioned as a replacement for flash memory, as it has non-volatile characteristics, but is faster and can be scaled to smaller dimensions. Flash memory cells can degrade and become unreliable after as few as 10,000 writes, but PCM is much more resilient at more than 100 million write cycles. For these reasons, Intel believes that phase-change memory could one day replace DRAM.

Mar 9, 2007, 02:42 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,187 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	Intel to Sample Phase Change Memory This Year Source: DailyTech _________ This week Intel privately shared parts of it roadmap for memory technologies through 2008. Revealed was that Intel’s progress on phase-change memory, shortened as usually PCM or PRAM, will soon be sampling to customers with mass production possible before the end of the year. Phase-change memory positioned as a replacement for flash memory, as it has non-volatile characteristics, but is faster and can be scaled to smaller dimensions. Flash memory cells can degrade and become unreliable after as few as 10,000 writes, but PCM is much more resilient at more than 100 million write cycles. For these reasons, Intel believes that phase-change memory could one day replace DRAM. __________________ *How You Can Help DriverHeaven By Using Digg*