Two decades ago Samsung took a leap in the dark. The company has always been known for breaking new ground, but at the beginning of the century it turned its attention to a storage technology that ...

Flash memory has become one of the fastest growing semiconductor memories because of widespread adoption of this nonvolatile memory in portable electronics devices and consumer applications. Two major ...

What is NAND flash memory? NAND flash is a type of nonvolatile memory that is accessed like a mass storage device (e.g., a hard drive). A form of electronically erasable programmable readonly memory ...

NOR flash memory is evolving much in the same way as its cousin, NAND flash: 3D NOR is on the horizon and poised to boost memory densities and dramatically enhance designs. Evolving electronic systems ...

Ferroelectric random access memory, or FeRAM, has long promised to offer a low-power alternative to flash computer memory, but its limited endurance cannot offset its deficiency in density such that ...