IBM working on future Memory technologies with Infineon

IBM working on future Memory technologies with Infineon

IBM (International Business Machines Corp) has collaborated with tech companies like Infineon and Macronix to develop products for future requirement of memory solutions. The aim is to find better ways to handle high-speed, high-density data storage. All these companies specialize in semiconductors and they would be working together on phase-change memory (PCM), a form of memory that relies on change in material state. Current generation memory solutions rely on electrical charge.

However, market analysts claim that the proposed solutions in the form of PCM and holographic memory are still not accepted in the market, where the manufacturers prefer to use cheaper flash and DRAM memory. The current generation solutions are also harder to produce in smaller solutions and devices.

Vice president of science and technology at IBM Research, T.C. Chen said in a statement: “The project will aim to develop the materials for high performance, advanced nonvolatile memory and evaluate these materials in realistic memory chip demonstrations.” He claimed that this collaboration was a renewed effort from the IBM in its efforts to explore new phenomena for memory.