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AMD Licenses Z-RAM Technology

Posted by Zonk on from the anything-is-better-with-a-z dept.

ZuperDee writes "It appears AMD has licensed Z-RAM technology from Innovative Silicon for possible use in future processors. According to the article, this could lead to caches about 5 times denser than the SRAM that is normally used right now. C|Net says they will probably make the announcement on Monday."

2 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. The message is clear: by THE+MESSAGE+IS+CLEAR · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have run out of ram letters!

  2. Details by Savantissimo · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a single-transistor capacitorless memory cell using the "floating body effect" of silicon on insulator (SOI) devices. Presumably stored charge in the gate affects the operation of the transistor in a way that can be used to store and read a bit, but I didn't feel like registering to read the white paper. The new memory should be six times denser than SRAM and twice as dense as DRAM.

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