Korean researcher hopes to build ferroelectric RAM

If you've fantasized about how wonderful your life could be if the merits of DRAM, SRAM and Flash memory could all be mixed harmoniously into one "dream semiconductor," listen up. You may not be up to speed on all the advancements in ferroelectric materials, but we're pretty sure even the technological newbie could appreciate a new discovery by Korean researcher Dr. Shin Young-han. Reportedly, this fellow has "succeeded in figuring out the operational mechanism of ferroelectrics," which could potentially lead to FeRAM -- a technology that could "store data ten times faster than Flash memory and keep it for longer than ten years." Kudos to you, Dr. Shin, now let's get this stuff on the production line, shall we?

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[Devon @ Oct 19th 2007 5:22PM]

Getting closer to insta-boot up! exciting! Because need everything NOOWWWZZZ

[ethana2 @ Oct 19th 2007 11:41PM]

You hear about those new mainboards that come with Linux /on/ them? 5 second initial boot up time. I'm cool with that :)

[chris @ Oct 19th 2007 5:29PM]

Please! Let's hope this doesn't take 10 years to hit the shelves. It seems that Gordon Moore's law still stands...

[BananaBoat @ Oct 19th 2007 5:49PM]

Dr.Young Han shot first

[Hecktarzuli @ Oct 19th 2007 5:54PM]

10x is childs play, how about 1000 times? Check out MIT's website.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/19428/

You should also look at Race-Track memory as well, that's another one being developed.

[Pwl @ Oct 19th 2007 7:24PM]

That would be Dr. Shin. Names in East Asian countries (Korea, Japan, China) are in the order of Surname Given name. i.e. Kim Jong-Il, Kurosawa Akira, Mao Zedong etc. etc. Oftentimes the names are reversed in English publications to conform to the Western convention, but they are increasingly being written in its original order, although not very much for Japanese names.

[Steven Kim @ Oct 19th 2007 9:22PM]

I wonder if this research has found a solution to the hysteretical performance of FeRAM, which has historically been a huge limitation (on the order of 1 million cycles) to the technology.

[rada @ Oct 19th 2007 10:36PM]

FRAM exists, its just still in its infancy http://www.eeproductcenter.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202201414

[zabador @ Oct 20th 2007 1:58AM]

Guess that'll make SSD more intersting, expecially since it can now that RAM will be made obsolite for swap space.