Nanotech memory might soon be reality
Last modified: June 7, 2004, 7:46 AM PDT
(http://news.com.com/Nanotech+memory+might+soon+be+reality/2100-1004_3-5227642.html?tag=cd.top)
From the article:"...Nantero, a start-up developing memory chips using nanotechnology, and LSI Logic, a leading maker of specialty microchips, are expected to announce Monday that they have transferred Nantero's technology to a standard semiconductor production line.
Nantero is creating high-density nonvolatile random access memory, or NRAM, that it hopes will replace existing forms of memory. Its technology, using cylindrical molecules of carbon known as nanotubes, will be used on a production line in LSI's semiconductor factory in Gresham, Ore. ..."
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"...The transition from laboratory to production line took more than nine months, the companies said, adding that considerable work remains to improve the chips.
"But it's following the same type of road map as any other semiconductor product," said Norman Armour, vice president and general manager of the LSI factory in Gresham. Armour said that processors embedded with carbon nanotube memory in place of static random access memory, or SRAM, could be supplied commercially from the factory's pilot line next year if no problems develop. ..." |
