Meanwhile, Rambus' memory technology has found its way into high-definition televisions from Sony and from Matsushita 's Panasonic division, which are beginning to ship in higher volumes in Japan, though a strong HDTV market for the U.S. is still a few years off.
Brand-new concepts such as RRAM, molecular, organic/polymer, and other nanowire-based memory technologies have also been proposed.
Many other new classes of emerging memory technologies such as transparent and plastic, three-dimensional (3-D), and quantum dot memory technologies have also gained tremendous popularity in recent years.
Recently, Yole Développement reports describe that emerging memory technologies have great potential to improve future memory devices to be increasingly used in various markets of industry and transportation, enterprise storage, mobile phones, mass storage, and smart cards [43].
But the ideal characteristics of new emerging memory technologies have to be meeting the performance of SRAM and the density of NAND Flash in terms of stability, scalability, and switching speed.
As DRAM technology is facing scalability limitations due to its excessive leakage power in nano-scale technologies, various non-volatile memory technologies have been emerged to replace it in memory hierarchy.
The giant business software company's in-memory technology has driven new energy into SAP.
Although early computers such as CSIRAC made successful use of mercury delay line memory, the technology had several drawbacks; it was heavy, it was expensive, and it did not allow data to be accessed randomly.
For the first time in memory, technology standards have become a discussion topic at legislative hearings, on the U.S. presidential campaign trail and at E.U. regulatory meetings.
