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  Samsung has announced to ship industry’s first Multi-chip package (MCP) with PRAM from this quarter. The PRAM touted as the next successor of NOR flash is apt for use in mobile handsets and the new MCP-based 512Mbit PRAM is said to be backward compatible with 40nm-class NOR flash memory. PRAM uses phase change characteristics [...]

  Samsung and Numonyx have come together to develop market specifications for Phase Change Memory (PCM/PRAM) that will allow manufacturers to develop devices on common specs. PCM is a non-volatile memory that boasts fast read and write speeds, effectively combining the advantages of RAM, NOR and NAND. The specifications that are being prepared will support [...]

  Perfect RAM or Phase-change RAM may have missed the commercial launch of 2008 but Samsung is finally gearing up to release it for mass consumption in June after exhibiting it in the Ninth Next-Generation Semiconductor Forum in South Korea. Samsung will showcase a 512Mb (64MB) PRAM prototype at the forum. For those who have [...]