RRAM vendor inks deal with semi foundry

I've been a fan of RRAM - resistive random access memory - for years. It is much superior to NAND flash as a storage medium, except for cost, density and industry production capacity. Hey, you can't have everything! But Crossbar announced today that they've inked a...

Memcomputing

Why do we focus on I/O? Because our architectures are all about moving data to the CPU. But why is that the model? Because Turing and von Neumann? Universal Turing Machines (UTM) have a fixed read/write head and a movable tape that stores data, instructions and...

Non-volatile memory conference next week

I'm looking forward to attending the 7th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop 2016 at UC San Diego next week. I couldn't make FAST 16 this year - darn it! - so this will be my Q1 storage wonk fix. My focus is on emerging technologies, products, companies and markets,...