Motorola Tech Gets Flashy
News Motorola is creating the two methods because design limitations threaten to hamper today's most widely used silicon-based flash technology manufacturing technique -- called floating gate -- as the average size of memory cells in a chip grows smaller.
[February 7, 2003, 10:46]
Intel Sharpens Its Memory
News Toshiba and the University of California at Berkeley have done significant research into floating-body cells, in which a memory cell sits in between a gate on top and an oxide layer on the bottom, with the substrate of the chip beneath the oxide...
[December 12, 2006, 7:40]
Spansion Sees Profits In Flash Memory's Future
News Spansion already makes flash chips that rely on charge trapping, which is similar but slightly different to conventional "floating gate" flash. The memory cells in conventional floating-gate flash consist of a sandwich of materials: polysilicon is...
[November 29, 2007, 14:05]
Intel Launches Penryn Chips
News For the first time, Intel plans to use a metal gate and a new material for the oxide layer around the gate in its transistor designs. The gates were getting down to the point where the gate dielectric — an insulating layer that sits between the...
[November 12, 2007, 7:36]
Four-bit-per-cell Flash Memory Demoed
News Spansion said the four-bit-per-cell technology could deliver a 30 percent smaller effective cell size per bit than floating-gate MLC NAND technology. The Silicon Valley-based vendor intends its so-called MirrorBit Quad technology to be used in...
[September 27, 2006, 14:05]
Flash Memory Begins To Fade
News About 10 volts must be applied to the floating gate to get electrons through in the first place -- far more voltage than is used to animate microprocessor transistors. The silicon dioxide insulator is so effective that a floating gate transistor...
[March 27, 2003, 16:17]
AMD Unveils Triple-gate Transistor
News Among the concepts being debated are replacing the traditional silicon gate, which regulates the flow of electricity, with metallic oxides; adding insulating layers to wafers; and physically straining the silicon lattice to allow electrons to move...
[September 19, 2003, 11:20]
Sony Reveals Blu-ray Pricing Structure
Talkback A Floating Gate Mosfet is used to read the electro static field data. The technology concept is to use Polarized UV photons having resonant frequencies of the ferroelectric molecule along with Nano/Microwave Electric Fields to control electron...
[February 11, 2006, 13:44]
