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EMD Performance Materials Announces Comprehensive Materials Solutions for Chip Miniaturization and Smart Packaging
Philadelphia PA, USA, July 10, 2017 – EMD Performance Materials, a leading science, and technology company, today announced its portfolio...
2015 Retrospective and Outlook for 2016: 3D NAND Flash One-upmanship
“On average since 1885, the yearly height record has gone up by 10 feet (3 meters) each time. Since the...
3D NAND at the 2015 Flash Memory Summit – Slipping the Surly Bonds of Earth?
It’s been many years since I realized that semiconductor conferences were not purely scientific but had a certain mix of...
3D NAND Flash, El Capitan and Peacocks’ Tails – An Outlook for 2015
2014: That was a year that was! Many of you, perhaps remembering my outlook missive from last year, must be...
Ye Antique Towers – Samsung’s 3D NAND Flash SSD 850 Pro
Samsung’s introduction of its 3D NAND Flash SSD 850 Pro has led to the inevitable hullabaloo. Amid all the fuss, it hasn’t...
3D NAND Flash at the 2014 VLSI Symposium
Imagine this: aquamarine tints of the Pacific washing sandy Hawaiian beaches amid the balmy breeze and only yards away, several...
3D NAND Flash – Schiltron’s Answer
It probably appears that the only 3D technologies vying for 2D NAND’s crown are V-NAND from Samsung and p-BiCS from...
Samsung’s V-NAND Flash at the 2014 ISSCC: Ye Distant Spires…
True to form, Samsung followed up it’s V-NAND Flash announcement of 2013 with a product chip-level presentation at the 2014 IEEE International Solid-State...
3D NAND Flash: Outlook for 2014
What with all the commotion about 3D NAND and the accompanying cyberspace chorus, you would surely be forgiven in thinking...
3D NAND Flash – Towering Spires or Costly Canyons? – Part 4
If you’ve followed me thus far in the three preceding posts, well done! We started by questioning the cost assumptions....
3D NAND Flash – Towering Spires or Costly Canyons?
The transition to 3D NAND Flash seems to be imminent with projections of it being half the total NAND Flash...
The Other 3D: IEDM 2012 Zeroes in on 3D Memory and 3D Transistors
Previews of IEDM 2012, which got underway today in San Francisco, indicate a program this year rich in content on...