Market reports

Latest Global Mobile Phone Memory Industry Report Includes MRAM Information

mram — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:52:55 -0500

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Telephony industry is available in its catalogue. The report gives an in-depth analysis of mobile phone memory industry, covering nearly 300 memory models newly put on the market, including memory types, suppliers, memory capacity, etc. At the same time, the products of all mobile phone memory manufacturers get expounded as well in the report.

Need for Smaller, High-speed, Ultra-high Density, Storage Devices Fostering Advances in Embedded Memories

mram — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:20:35 -0500

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the Frost & Sullivan report: Advances in Embedded Memories to their offering.

New report covers the markets for FRAM, MRAM, ovonic memory and other memory types

mram — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:48:19 -0500

Research and Markets has announced the addition of The Market For Nano-Enabled Memory and Storage - 2006 & Beyond to their offering. This report covers the markets for FRAM, MRAM, ovonic memory, nanotube memory, molecular memory, polymer memory, holographic memory, MEMS-based memory systems and other memory technologies likely to be commercialized in the next decade.

Prof. Thomas Sterling: MRAM is one of the most promising materials expected to replace silicon for supercomputing

mram — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500

n an interview for HPCwire, Professor Thomas Sterling says that MRAM is one of the most promising material expected to replace silicon for supercomputing chip production. From the interview: "The most likely replacement for silicon is silicon; and by that I mean new semiconductor materials incorporating silicon. Beyond that, my personal opinion is that the most promising technologies likely to enhance the use of advanced silicon technologies are: a) chip to chip optical interconnects, b) Wafer-scale technology, but this has to have built-in fault tolerance, otherwise low yields will kill it. c) Niobium RSFQ super-conductive technology; this is unpopular, but the power benefits at higher clock rates are significant. And d) MRAM - magnetic RAM for low power, high density storage. There is also the possibility of new packaging techniques that may greatly increase density, such as 3-D structures; but this assumes we can get the heat out. In each of these cases we have enough proof of concept experiments in laboratory tests to demonstrate their promise Using fiber optics one can deliver close to one Terabit per second rates and super-conductive material can clock at in excess of 700 GHz. RSFQ was cited in a previous ITRS report by the SIA as a potential future technology.

New Report, "The Market For Nano-Enabled Memory and Storage - 2006 & Beyond"

mram — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0500

This report covers the markets for FRAM, MRAM, ovonic memory, nanotube memory, molecular memory, polymer memory, holographic memory, MEMS-based memory systems and other memory technologies likely to be commercialized in the next decade.
The report identifies and quantifies the opportunities presented by these technologies and the timeframes in which they will emerge. The current state of the market for each of these technologies is identified – are they in R&D, sampling, pilot production, full-scale production? – as are the markets for these products are to be found. The report discusses which kinds of end product would use each of these technologies and in what context – do they replace DRAM, SRAM, Flash, disk storage or some combination of these? Will they create entirely new products?

Nanotechnology-Enabled Memory Market to Surpass $7 Billion in 2010, Says New NanoMarkets Report

mram — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600

NanoMarkets’ new report covers the markets for FRAM, MRAM, nanocrystalline memory, ovonic memory, nanotube memory, molecular memory, polymer memory, holographic memory and MEMS-based memory systems. The report identifies and quantifies the opportunities presented by these technologies and the timeframes in which they will emerge. The current state of development for each of these technologies is identified – are they in R&D, sampling, pilot production, full-scale production? – as are the markets for these products. The report discusses the types of end product that will use each of these technologies and in what context –i.e., do they replace DRAM, SRAM, Flash, disk storage or some combination of these? Will they create entirely new products? The role of key semiconductor companies and OEMs is also discussed, including the progress of some of the smaller firms active in this space. Particular attention is paid to how many of the competing nanomemory solutions can succeed and which ones they are most likely to be. Detailed market forecasts are included, broken out by technology type and application served.

New report about Nano-Enabled Memory and Storage to be released on March 2006

mram — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600

Research and Markets : MRAM is the First Radically New Memory Technology to Show Real Commercial Promise for Many Years

mram — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0500

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Magneto resistive Random Access Memories (MRAM) Summary to their offering.
MRAM is the first radically new memory technology to show real commercial promise for many years. This report summarizes the extensive market research that has been done in the MRAM market and extends the coverage of MRAM provided in the Emerging Memory Technologies report. MRAM is already being commercialized and this report examines why MRAM is becoming one of the first complex nano-engineered products to hit the marketplace. It also takes a look at the challenges that this technology faces and provides a table indicating which market sectors are likely to use MRAM and when, and what their reasons for adoption would be. Sectors covered include mobile computing, cell phones and other handhelds, portable recording and other playback devices, home computing and consumer electronics, enterprise computing and telecommunications, control systems and embedded computing, and disposable electronics. Another table reviews the activities of approximately 15 actual and likely suppliers of MRAM including both giants, such as Freescale, and less well-known start-ups. The report ends with an analysis of the available marketing strategies in the MRAM market and a forecast of MRAM revenues over the next eight years.

'Universal' memory market to hit $75 billion in 2019, says iSuppli

mram — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0500

The market for a memory integrated circuit that combines the speed of SRAM, the density of DRAM and the non-volatility of flash, could be $76.3 billion by 2019, according to market research company iSuppli Corp.
The so-called “universal” memory would, by then, have grabbed about 80 percent of the market, the market researcher has estimated in a long-range forecast it described as “speculative.”
There is no single semiconductor memory technology today that has all the desired attributes, which on top of speed, density and non-volatility include: low-cost of manufacture, low switching energy and scalability to nanometer-scale dimension.
Products in various stages of commercialization that include at least some of the attributes include: Ovonic Unified Memory (OUM), Magneto-Resistive RAM (MRAM), Ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) and Nanotube RAM (NRAM), iSuppli said. But the rewards for a winning technology are likely to be immense with the memory market set to double from $46.8 billion posted in 2004 to $95.4 billion by 2019, iSuppli said. debt."

Embedded non-volatile storage promises memory marvels

mram — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0500

Interesting article from Engineer Live, about MRAM, OUM and FRAM -
MRAM is the highest profile at the moment, with a 4Mbit prototype shown in December (2003) based around a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) where magnetic material stores the data bit.
"We are very excited about this," said Saied Tehrani, director of MPEM technology at Motorola Semiconductor division. "It really brings two parts of the industry together - semiconductor and magnetics. We have taken the thin film technology and integrated that with the silicon transistor technology and used the magnetic polarisation to store the data and the silicon transistor for reading and writing the information."
The 4Mbit part is built in 0.18µm technology but for commercial products Motorola is looking at jumping a process generation and going straight to the current leading edge 90nm. This is being developed at a plant in Crolles, France, in a joint development with Franco-Italian chip maker ST Microelectronics and Dutch electronics giant Philips.
This would allow 64Mbits or even 128Mbit stand alone devices to be built, but that is not the aim.
So Motorola is planning to embed MRAM into devices alongside other functions. Tehrani would not comment on what these devices would be, except to say that they would be out on the market in 2005 and Motorola would announce the roadmap later this year. "Microcontrollers are a definite possibility for this technology," he said.