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To: Gutterball who wrote (176)	7/29/1998 10:17:00 PM
From: makeuwonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 468

Does Racom/Ramtron do any of this stuff yet? This is something I found. It was translated from German. COMPUTER WEEK No. 26 of 29.06.1990 A view forward Ferrouselectrical chips are the memory modules of the future FRAMINGHAM (IDG) - 30 minutes of sprachaufnahme on a credit card and dozens of photos on a matchbox-large memory card: So the next generation could look from storage media. Already into de 50's IBM and AT&T had thought about technologies for the development of ferrouselectrical memory chips - at that time still without success. Now the Ramtron Corp. from Colorado Springs and national the Semiconductor Corp. investigated a procedure to produce FRAM chips by applying a film of ferrouselectrical material on a semiconductor wafer. FRAM is for ferrouselectrical optional direct access storage. The advantages of these chips opposite conventional building blocks are in their more efficient memory way and a higher number of condensers, which integrate them in a circuit. Above all however they can protect years to data without current feed up to ten, without these are lost. Ramtron stresses with its FRAMs after words of David Bondurant, which Director OF Business development, which developed first enterprises to be, non volatile read/write memories of this type. The company produces like AT&T FRAMs for the automobile -, computer and consumer electronics industry. Ramtron wants to begin still this year with the production from 1-Kbit to 16-Kbit-Chips. An advantage is that one can give the Dip switches up with the application of these building blocks for example in printers and record their information on the chips. Until 1992 want to have developed the enterprise even 16-Mbit-FRAMs. If this target should be carried out, could have this substantial effects on the production of conventional workspace technologies. Ramtron among other things already concluded development agreements with the Seiko Epson Corp., NMB Semiconductor CO Ltd., ITT Semiconductors. Also the market research institute Dataquest sees a strongly growing market for the FRAM technology. Since the chips do not possess mobile sections against well-known storage media such as fixed disks, from this beside more at reliability also a rate advantage would arise. However the user has to pay for this a noticeably higher cost per MB storage space. Ramtron manager Bondurant assumes in future PC systems as workspaces FRAMs were used, while as mass storages optical disks would be applicable. With Sony some scientists believe also that FRAMs could replace Compact disks in the future as carrier medium for music storages.