AMD Licenses Embedded Memory From ISi
Sledgehammer70
California Icrontian
Innovative Silicon (ISi), the developer of Z-RAM (Zero Capacitor DRAM) high density memory, has announced that AMD has contracted to purchase a Z-RAM embedded memory technology license for potential use in its future microprocessor products.
What does this licensing mean for AMD? Well with this new Technology AMD will be able to increase the size of their embedded memory. This will yield faster chips, and less overall power consumption.
Source: Business Wire
What does this licensing mean for AMD? Well with this new Technology AMD will be able to increase the size of their embedded memory. This will yield faster chips, and less overall power consumption.
It will be interesting to see what comes of this. Will this technology help out AMD's newly mentioned Quad Core CPU's? or was this licensing a result of AMD using similar copyrighted material? I guess only time will tell.We are very pleased to announce that AMD has contracted to purchase a technology license for our Z-RAM embedded memory technology. We are proud to have such a prominent and successful technology company with a strong reputation for innovation select Z-RAM memory, and underline the validity of the Z-RAM approach in comparison with other, less proven technologies. Working with AMD shows the increasing importance of using ultra-high density embedded memory in the semiconductor industry as embedded memory occupies larger and larger proportions of the microprocessor and embedded processor die area
Source: Business Wire
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This will rase the price and yeild little proformence increese.
Personally, I think AMD, lagging behind in process and frequency with Intel, is looking in the rearview mirror and seeing that it's marketshare is currently heavily dependent on getting more bang/cycle than Intel as it can. I find the prospects ... actually intriguing and possibly exciting.