IBM,Samsung go for phase-change-RAM, and MRAM too

Phase change memory, one of the ideas that's been bounced around the technology industry for over thirty years, got a big endorsement this week from IBM and Samsung.

One of the leading candidates to replace flash, magnetic RAM, looks good and Freescale Semiconductor has already come out with an MRAM device. Shrinking MRAM, however, is proving to be tough. The cell sizes are big too.

Posted: Sep 17,2006 by Ron Mertens