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Friday, January 25, 2008

"CHIPS Nanochip on-track for terabyte chips"

Nanochip Inc. (Fremont, Calif.) claims to be on-track to the development of terabyte memory chips that combine phase-change media to cantilever read/write heads controlled by a microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS). The memory chips will use conventional, DRAM-like interfaces, but internally will function like a multiple-head hard drive, where slaved MEMS cantilevers will move in unison over their array of bit cells to read and write phase-change media. Nanochip claims its first prototypes will be delivered in 2009, with volume production scheduled to 2010.
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205918634