Intel forms nanotech alliance to improve memory
News To date, Intel has put most of its efforts to find an alternative to traditional flash architectures into Ovonics, which involves making memory out of the same material used to make CDs. It is unclear whether the Nanosys deal involved Ovonics or...
[January 15, 2004, 13:05]
Magnetised protein globules talk in binary code
News Using material this way to store data is part of the field of electronics called "Ovonics. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore once predicted a bright future for Ovonics. Molten silicon, designer molecules, and protein globules from a cow.
[July 26, 2004, 10:45]
Infineon and IBM in Ovonic collaboration
News Intel has backed Ovonics Unified Memory, a form of phase-change memory, for years. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted Ovonics would become popular 30 years ago, but it hasn't happened yet. Like Ovonics, spintronics the theory has yet to...
[May 24, 2005, 15:45]
IBM, Intel to tip on energy-saving chips
News Like flash, though, Ovonics chips will retain data stored on them when a device goes off, and they also work for over a trillion write cycles -- unlike flash, which lasts for a million or so. The company has produced a 4MB ovonics cell using the...
[February 4, 2002, 17:04]
Flash memory begins to fade
News Chip giant Intel is experimenting with Ovonics Unified Memory, which uses the same material as DVD discs. Intel, meanwhile, is experimenting with Ovonics Unified Memory, an energy-efficient technology that differs from traditional flash in that it...
[March 27, 2003, 16:17]
Plastic memory shows promise
News Intel has invested in ovonics, which uses the same material as CD-RW disks, as an alternative to reprogrammable flash memory. Researchers at Princeton University working with Hewlett-Packard have invented a new form of permanent computer memory...
[November 27, 2003, 16:45]
IBM labs unveil nanotech storage 'punch card'
News Intel, meanwhile, is working on Ovonics, a type of memory made out of the same material at CD-ROM disks. IBM researchers have created a storage device that holds up to a trillion bits of information, or about 25 million textbook pages in a postage...
[June 11, 2002, 8:44]
IBM, Infineon show off next-gen memory progress
News As a result, chipmakers have been tinkering with alternatives such as Ovonics Unified Memory, memory made out of the same material as CD discs; Silicon Nanocrystals, which replaces a solid layer inside chips with a crystal lattice; and MRAM.
[June 10, 2003, 7:38]
Motorola crystallises memory breakthrough
News Intel, for instance, says that Ovonics Unified Memory, which is made out of the same material as DVD discs, holds fairly strong promise. Motorola plans to announce on Monday that it has manufactured prototypes of a flash memory chip that relies on...
[March 31, 2003, 8:08]
Intel reveals flash card plan
News One alternative Intel is looking at is Ovonics Unified Memory. In 2005, it will lay plans to conquer new territory. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker will start to produce flash memory for consumer electronics devices, which typically...
[March 3, 2005, 7:50]
Intel looks at leap in handheld memory
News So far, Intel has identified three promising technologies: "plastic" memory, or polymer ferroelectric RAM (PFRAM); Ovonics Unified Memory (OUM), which uses the same materials as rewriteable CDs; and magnetic RAM, or MRAM.
[July 12, 2001, 9:40]
Wanted: Successor to flash memory
News AMD is the second largest manufacturer of flash memory, after Intel, which has said it is working with several potential replacements, including "plastic" memory, or polymer ferroelectric RAM (PFRAM); Ovonics Unified Memory, which uses the same...
[December 11, 2002, 11:37]
