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Hynix Licenses ISi Z-RAM Technology
2007-08-18 15:59:00
Hynix to create DRAM that will use a single transistor bitcellInnovative Silicon (ISi) and Hynix Semiconductor today announced an agreement for the Korean memory maker to license Z-RAM high-density memory intellectual property for use in its DRAM chips. The deal between the two companies is worth more than $10 million, with additional royalties in production.Z-RAM was initially developed as the world?s lowest-cost embedded memory technology for logic-based ICs such as mobile chipsets, microprocessors, networking and other consumer applications.Z-RAM-based DRAMs will use a single transistor bitcell ? rather than a combination of transistors and capacitor elements ? representing the first fundamental DRAM bitcell change since the invention of the DRAM in the early 1970s.Although AMD was the first major licensee of Z-RAM technology, Hynix is the first with plans to bring the Z-RAM technology to the DRAM market. Both Interactive Silicon and Hynix are committing considerable engineering ...
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PCI Express 3.0 Details
2007-08-18 14:36:00
Now with 8 gigatransfers per second; coming to a system near you in three yearsThe PCI Special Interest Group, or PCI-SIG, this week announced the speeds of the latest evolution to the PCI Express specification ? PCI Express 3.0, also known as PCIe 3.0. PCIe 3.0 doubles the transfer rate of PCIe 2.0, bringing overall throughput to 8 gigatransfers per second, or GT/s.PCI-SIG is designing the PCIe 3.0 standard for increased performance, but maintain backwards compatibility with PCIe and PCIe 2.0 devices. The group managed to double throughput of the existing PCIe 2.0 standard by removing the 8b/10b-encoding scheme used and additional optimizations. The 8b/10b-encoding scheme took 20 percent overhead on the overall raw bit rate, according to the group. The PCIe 3.0 standard also includes new signaling and data integrity enhancements."Backwards compatibility was a strong selling point for allowing our customers to migrate their technologies to the future technology, knowing that they ha...
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