Intel Micron Announces New Memory Chip

Intel and Micron said they plan to start shipping a new memory chip next year. The chip speeds up to 1000 times the current NAND flash memory chips used by most mobile devices, can store 10 times the data capacity of mainstream DRAM memory chips.

The technology, called 3D Xpoint, although processing speed is not very close to the DRAM chip, but like a NAND flash memory chip, it can save data even after the power is off. Intel and Micron did not disclose too much technical detail about 3D Xpoint, including the key materials they use, but said they used a unique way to store data.

Intel and Micron executives expect the industry to benefit from the speed of new chips, especially those based on massive data-based functional models such as speech recognition, financial fraud detection and genomics.

"This is indeed a revolutionary technology," Micron CEO Mark Durcan said at a technology launch on Tuesday. Rob Crooke, Intel's senior vice president, said: "This is a technology many consider impossible."

But the importance and ingenuity of this new technology may be conservative. In recent years, many other companies have announced significant advances in memory chip development. Sylvain Dubois, vice president of strategic marketing and business development at startup Crossbar, said that Intel and Micron seem to have emulated the elements of its resistive RAM technology. "It sounds very much like the technology we already have," Dubos said.

Other companies, such as Everspin Technologies, also believe they have taken the lead in providing DRAM-level speed for stable data storage chips.

Intel and Micron plans to initially produce two-layer chips capable of storing up to 128Gb of data, a storage capacity equivalent to that of some existing NAND chips. With more chips stacked in the chip, Intel and Micron plan to increase the chip's storage capacity in the future.

Analysts participating in the technology launch said on Tuesday that hardware designers need time to decide how or whether to use the technology. Intel and Micron said prior art offers far less speedup than newer chips.

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