IBM shrinks SRAM cell for future chip generation
News The size of SRAM cells — which in turn make up SRAM chips — is a fundamental factor in making chips smaller. Although the next generation of chip manufacturing is based on the 32nm scale (the current generation is based on the 45nm scale), the one...
[August 18, 2008, 17:23]
UMC produces first 45nm SRAM
News Taiwanese supplier UMC says it has successfully produced functional 45-nanometre SRAM chips for the first time. These 45nm SRAM processors will supercede today's 65-nm chips. They will allow manufacturers to shrink the size of each SRAM cell...
[November 20, 2006, 23:00]
Micron withdraws from the SRAM market
News The memory maker on Thursday said it would stop producing its synchronous SRAM products, which are used mainly in communications gear. SRAM is typically used to store frequently accessed data in a cache close to the processor that will be handling it.
[April 10, 2003, 14:49]
TSMC shrinks memory to 0.13 microns
News TSMC) says it has successfully made SRAM memory chips using an advanced 0.13-micron manufacturing process at its Fab 12. One customer has already taped out -- or finalised -- a 0.13-micron SRAM product, the company said.
[October 24, 2001, 17:10]
Magnetic memory set to charge the market
News While DRAM and SRAM use well-known techniques with silicon, MRAM adds much extra complexity with very precise application of new materials, while still needing the same basic silicon circuitry for interfacing and control.
[February 12, 2003, 8:16]
Intel shrinks chips to 90 nanometres
News The experimental SRAM (static RAM) chips measure approximately 109 square millimetres and contain up to 52 million bits of data, making them the densest SRAM chips ever produced, according to the company.
[March 12, 2002, 16:48]
IBM set to boost chip memory
News Starting with its 45nm (nanometre) processors next year, IBM will use embedded DRAM (dynamic RAM) instead of SRAM (static RAM) on its processors, effectively tripling the amount of memory it can put on those chips.
[February 14, 2007, 8:06]
Moore's Law on course for another two years
News The test chips, produced this month, are static 153 Mb SRAM chips. The chips contain over a billion transistors and are nearly the same size as test 18 Mb SRAM chips produced by Intel in 2000 on the then-new 130nm process.
[January 26, 2006, 9:15]
Intel sharpens its memory
News But SRAM (static RAM) cells currently used to make cache memory are not as dense as Intel would like, with six transistors needed to build a cell and store one bit of information. But one technology that fits the bill — embedded DRAM (dynamic RAM...
[December 12, 2006, 7:40]
Carbon nanotubes rise up food chain
News Nantero's memory is faster than static random access memory (SRAM), an embedded form of memory used for caches on processors, Schmergel said. LSI will use Nantero's memory as an SRAM replacement, as will the unnamed licensee.
[July 2, 2004, 9:10]
Intel looks at leap in handheld memory
News SRAM, DRAM and flash Intel is specifically looking for technology that will combine higher density with the fast read/write speeds of synchronous RAM, the lower cost of dynamic RAM and the non-volatility of flash memory, which can store data when...
[July 12, 2001, 9:40]
TI strides towards 65 nanometres
News The Dallas company on Monday said it has created static random access memory (SRAM) based on its forthcoming 65-nanometre manufacturing process. Intel also has produced SRAM chips with a 65-nanometre process and plans to come out with chips using...
[March 23, 2004, 10:20]
Images: New technology unveiled at IDF 2009
News These chips were SRAM memory chips often used to get new manufacturing processes debugged. The annual Intel Developer Forum, held this week in San Francisco, is Intel's flagship event to announce new technology and tout its vision.
[September 23, 2009, 17:00]
First Intel-powered BlackBerry launched
News The device will also come with 64MB of flash memory and 16MB of SRAM. RIM on Tuesday took the wraps off its first BlackBerry email device to run on an Intel XScale processor. As previously reported, the long-awaited BlackBerry 8700c, which was code...
[November 2, 2005, 8:40]
Intel shows teraflop chips
News It contained 80 teraflop chips, which each contained 80 processing cores, alongside some super-fast SRAM. Intel chief executive Paul Otellini caused an early stir at the chipmaker's Developer Forum on Tuesday when he briefly showed off a silicon...
[September 26, 2006, 18:20]
A Year Ago: Chip firms compete to push limits
News There will also be 4Mbit SRAM cache chips available using the same copper process. Following IBM's announcement last week of new insulated substrate technology, working in conjunction with copper interconnects to improve chip performance, AMD...
[April 16, 2001, 6:07]
ABIT readies 100MHz Socket 7 AGP board
News The board also supports synchronous DRAM and a standard 512Kb of L2 cache SRAM. Taiwan's ABIT today lent a hand to the non-Intel x86 world by announcing the first 100MHz Socket 7 AGP motherboard. Formerly, users wanting access to Intel's...
[January 20, 1998, 10:41]
Intel unveils new chip manufacturing technology
News Prototype SRAM (static RAM) chips, a type of memory, produced by Intel contain more than 330 million transistors in a 100-millimetre square space, Bohr said. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker will use "strained silicon" -- or silicon...
[August 13, 2002, 7:39]
Chip ushers in the disposable mobile
News Putting the digital baseband, SRAM, logic, radio frequency (RF), power management and analogue functions on one piece of silicon will, TI says, make it cheaper and easier for manufacturers to build entry-level phones.
[January 25, 2005, 13:20]
iPod sparks record boom in chip sales
News According to Gartner, Samsung now dominates most areas of the memory market, holding the number one position in DRAM, SRAM and the fast-growing NAND flash market. Sales of semiconductors are at their highest ever level, said Gartner on Friday, as...
[December 9, 2005, 16:25]
