This is a new addition to the TAW Newsletter so I would like to start with introducing it and me.I am a returning TAW member that many of the older members know, but there is a lot of new faces so I might as well introduce me for you. My IGN name is Freeoath in all games and even here on TAW. Joined TAW March of 2012 in the Tribes:Ascend division when it was still in Horizon. I quickly stepped up in positions and together with Koto and Eifer spun up the whole division. In Late August 2012 I had to resign Honorably due to a severe liver disease. If you want to know more there is info at my Bio.About this segment. I will in every newsletter introduce new things in the IT world. It will be both short articles and longer reviews or introductions. You will see as time goes by.If there is request for any reviews of technical items just give me a shout and I will se what I can do.Crossbar's Resistive RAM ChipsWith the growth of the mobile units the request for more power efficient, high performing and low cost memory, a market that has exploaded lately and is expected to be worth over 60 billion USD a year.
"The Crossbar memory cell is based on three simple layers: A non-metallic bottom electrode, an amorphous silicon switching medium and a metallic top electrode. The resistance switching mechanism is based on the formation of a filament in the switching material when a voltage is applied between the two electrodes."According to Crossbar, the RRAM is supposed to perform 20 times more efficient than traditional flash memory (NAND). Also withstand 10 times more write cycles , have lower power consumption and thanks to it's stacked circuits be able to store several terabytes of memory in one single chip.
This technology has been impossible to make real with the current CMOS-technology. But now Crossbar has managed to do just that in a commercial manufacturing plant, unlike the prototypes that has been made in labs thus far.They are starting the first phase in making this technology commercial, but they do not believe it will hit the market before 2016. When it comes they want it to replace SSD's and similar in all devices, from computers to Phones. This will also make phones and computers batterylife insanely long compared to now. Not hours or days, but weeks or even months.