February 22, 2012, ISSCC, San Francisco—Emerging technologies provide a window into areas that are far from the beaten track, but have the potential to be important at some time in the future. Energy harvesting can enable the addition of electronics to many new applications. The University of Tokyo developed a self powered, insole pedometer. The…
February 22, 2012, ISSCC, San Francisco—The need for nonvolatile data storage continues to grow with demands for greater density and higher reliability. Toshiba presented a 19 nm, 64Gb multilevel flash. The internal architecture was completely revamped in the move to a three bit per cell structure. Internal cells which featured 16 kbit planes and all…
February 20, 2012, ISSCC, San Francisco—Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk described flash memory as a disruptive force in the industry. Nonvolatile memory has been around for a really long time. The first examples were clay tablets which required high effort for one-time programming. More recently, in 1970 Intel invented the EPROM which was programmable…