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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (76546)	8/2/2001 1:16:54 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 93625

The future of memory forbes.com A Brazilian and an American have teamed up to develop a chip technology that could give Intel a run for its money. It's the holy grail of semiconductors: a technology so fast, so compact and so energy-efficient that it could power the next generation of mobile phones and much else besides. It is called ferroelectric memory and was developed not in Silicon Valley but in the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was developed by Symetrix and its cofounders: Carlos Araujo, 48, a Brazilian, and Larry McMillan, 65, an American. The two engineers set out 17 years ago to develop the ultimate semiconductor memory technology, a chip that would offer an unprecedented combination of desirable attributes (see table, below). Ferroelectric memory appears to be the only technology that can meet all the needs of advanced, handheld wireless devices, such as internet-enabled cell phones. Other kinds of semiconductors can meet only some of the requirements of such a device.