p2pnet.net News:- "Unlike existing memory technologies such as Flash memory, the performance of this new memory improves in virtually every respect the smaller you make it."

The quote is attributed by eWeek to Philips Research, the subject being a new material to integrate memory in very advanced semiconductors featuring very thin circuits.

“The new material needs only a tiny voltage to switch between on and off phases, which is used to ‘remember’ the data stored on a chip, says the report, going on:

“This makes it useful for future chips that will have thinner and smaller circuits and which will work with lower power levels than current chips. The material will remember the data after the power of the chip has been switched off, similar to today’s Flash memory chips used in portable music players and digital cameras.”

It’ll meet requirements for memory that needs to be integrated into a system on a chip by 2007 or 2008, says eWeek, adding:

“By that time, chips will have circuits as thin 50 nanometers, compared with today’s leading edge 90 nanometer chip making technology.”

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See:-
eWeek - Philips Finds New Material for Future Memory Chips, March 16, 2005

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