New Technology Reduces the Cost of Producing Copper DRAM and Flash Memory ChipsNovellus Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVLS) is a leading provider of advanced process equipment for the global semiconductor industry, has developed the IONX XL (eXtended Life) Ta(N) barrier process for the 3x/2xnm ...
“The CHIPS and Science Act is an important first step toward strengthening and retaining American technology leadership for decades to come,” Mehrotra said. “Today, only one out of every 50 memory chips is made domestically, and all that domestic production comes from a Micron fab.” The co...
Fig. 2: Synopsys DTCO flow for memory sense amplifiers. The Synopsys DTCO solution also includes a data-to-design workflow that enables fab data to be directly consumed by SPICE and FastSPICE simulators from PrimeSim Continuum for quick design PPA assessments. This allows process technologists and...
The 64-layer 3D NAND chips are based on YMTC's "in-house" Xtracking architecture. The company is already developing a 128-layer 3D NAND flash chip, and is skipping 96-layer along the way. YMTC's capacity will be augmented by a new fab being built by its parent company, Tsinghua ...
SK Hynix also claims 10 percent better read power efficiency, which is really neither here nor there when it comes to modern SSDs, unless we're talking server level SSDs with a dozen of these NAND chips or more. Rather than going with two stacks of 150 plus layers each, SK Hynix went...
Also last year, Samsung became the first company to announce it was mass-producing 3D flash chips, which it calls V-NAND. Those chips stacked 32-layers of transistors. Samsung’s V-NAND however, crams in 3-bits per transistor in what the industry refers to as triple-level cell (TLC) NA...
XMC breaks ground on first China-owned NAND flash fab. Micron introduces 768Gb 3D NAND. Western Digital acquires SanDisk. Everspin announces 256Mb MRAM chips. IBM adapts TLC to PCM. Samsung ships 48-layer 3D NAND. NVMe-oF (NVM Express over Fabrics) Rev. 1.0 published. NVMe-oF...
in central China. SK hynix's Wuxi location near Shanghai is responsible for about 12 percent of the world's DRAM products,, while its Dalian operation under SK hynix subsidiary Solidigm, formerly an asset of US chip giant Intel, has produced 5 percent of the world's NAND flash chips. ...
(with the exception of Kioxia, WDC, and YMTC) also make DRAM chips. With planar NAND, these NAND/DRAM manufacturers could build a new fab but wait until the last minute to decide whether to to manufacture NAND flash or DRAM in that new fab. A decade earlier, some even tried to make ...
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