Taiwan researchers develop smallest RRAM chips to replace flash memory

More powerful things come in small packages, well you may have not heard that before because I just made it up but I haven’t done so just uselessly to confuse you. The reason behind this is the latest research coming out of National Applied Research Laboratories in Taiwan. Here researchers have developed what the call is the world’s smallest memory chip – a Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) chip, which could be in the market in some 10 odd years from now. Measuring on 9nm the new memory chips will be able to hold times more information than the flash memory cards presently used in portable electronics, that at only 0.005 percent of the electricity used by the latter.

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Discussing about the possibilities of the RRAM first unveiled by National Applied Research Laboratories at the International Electron Devices Meeting Dec. 8 in San Francisco, research team member Ho Chia-hua said, ‘the new technology should make it possible to put 500GB of information onto a square centimeter microchip. This can be expanded to 1.5TB, accommodating 200 hours of video, 100,000 songs and millions of photos or documents.’

Via: TaiwanWorld