Published:
May 6, 2015
By Paula Doe, SEMI
Ever growing volumes of data to be stored and accessed, and advancing process technologies for sophisticated control of deposition and etch in complex stacks of new materials, are creating a window of opportunity for an emerging variety of next-generation non-volatile memory technologies. While Flash memory goes vertical for higher densities, resistive RAM and spin-transfer magnetic RAM technologies are moving towards commercial manufacture for initial applications in niches that demand a different mix of speed, power and endurance than flash or SRAM.