China develops and manufacturers phase change memory
Processors are not enough for the new world
Apr 27, 2011 in Memory, Microprocessors
China has developed and manufactured its first phase change memory that has a capacity of 8 Mb according to a report by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.
China obviously wishes to manufacture its own memory, but having been late to the game they decided to skip DRAM and go directly to phase change memory, which is widely regarded as a successor to DRAM as dimensions continue to shrink.
The phase change memory was manufactured jointly by Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. and Microchip Technology Inc., according to the Xinhua report.
China is not alone in going with phase change memory. Samsung of Korea is also fabbing phase change memory and they have already reached densities of 128 Mb on a 90 nm process, while Numonyx, which Micron has acquired, has been working on a 1 Gb device fabbed in 45 nm.
Phase change memory holds great promise replacing both flash and DRAM in the future, but for the time being it is mainly used as a replacement for NOR-flash in cell phones.S|A
AMD chips are better than intel any day. I use intel at work because I must. My personal computers are all AMD.
I’m not from China.
Bush cuts? Sounds like a good idea. No more beating around the bush if there is none. Sounds like a personal problem though. There are a few “professions” where bush is bad.
Bush could be defined as seemingly impenetrable barrier that had evolved to keep nasty things hidden’n'safe. Who could possibly want to cut such marvel away? Only a pussy with desire to spread it’s nastiness around while generating nice profit. OT->OT->OT, debate over :)
plus military, farm, & oil subsidies. And Bush Tax cuts for the uppper 1%.. Actually Social Security and food stamps basically pay for themselves.
Tax cuts are a distraction just like abortion. Do you honestly think that it matters one little bit how much the government taxes anyone? Bush cut taxes and promptly increased spending; the balance came in the form of inflated currency.
The U.S people would say AMD only sell in streets of China and laugh but now we Chinese are the makers on new miracle technology and this is what we have worked for very hard to be number 1 and make the miracle technology do not hate us for our hard work to become number one
Ok, Wong, I know you where like “oh my impoverished neighbors can only afford cut rate imitation hardware from AMD.”
But let me ask you… who was the first to 1 ghz for x86? Who made the first single die dual core processor? Who made the first x86 based 64 bit processor without lopping off what made an x86 an x86? I’ll tell you right now, it was not Intel.
Who cares whether or not if AMD does not make $400 cpus right now (other than you)? I am a American with high disposable income compared to most chinese, and I do not plan on spending more than $300 per component any time soon.
That aside, I think China may have about as much success with starting on RAM from scratch than they had with trying to develope jet engines. Despite all there efforts trying to steal and copy jet engine designs, the Chinese military still has to deal with supply pains from Russia, and that is the whole issue here: they hope to avoid supply issues by making stuff themselves. That is not a good philosophy for any economy of any country. Not all countries or suppliers are like Russia.
Trust is a wonderful thing to have.
you can be #1…..
will you loan us some more money so we can pay for social security, medicare, medicaid, and food stamps?
In b4 China hating messages.
Jeez, that institute name is quite the mouthful. Should just be SIMITCASSMIC&MTI; now that’s an acronym that rolls off the tongue.