The "Emerging Memories Take Off Report (2021)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The memories addressed in this report include PCM, RRAM, FRAM, MRAM, STT MRAM and a variety of less mainstream technologies such as carbon nanotubes.Based upon the level of current development and the characteristics of these technologies, resistive RAM (RRAM) appears to be a potential replacement for flash memory. However, flash memory has several generations of technologies that will be implemented before a replacement is required. Thus, this transition will not fully occur until the next decade at the earliest.

Current memory technologies including flash memory (NAND and NOR), DRAM and SRAM are facing potential technology limits to their continued improvement. As a result, there are intense efforts to develop new memory technologies. Most of these new technologies utilize nonvolatile memory technologies and can be used for long-term storage or to provide a memory that does not lose information when power is not applied. This offers advantages for battery and ambient powered devices and also for energy savings in data centres.

Micron and Intel's introduction of 3D XPoint Memory, a technology that has high endurance, performance much better than NAND, although somewhat slower than DRAM, and higher density than DRAM; is impacting the need for DRAM. Intel introduced NVMe SSDs with its Optane technology (using 3D XPoint) in 2017 and started shipping DIMM-Optane modules in 2019. 3D XPoint uses a type of phase change technology.

Magnetic RAM (MRAM) and spin tunnel torque RAM (STT MRAM) are starting to replace sNOR, SRAM and possibly DRAM. The rate of development in STT MRAM and MRAM capabilities will result in gradually lower prices, and the attractiveness of replacing volatile memory with high speed and high endurance nonvolatile memory make these technologies very competitive, assuming that their volume increases to reduce production costs (and thus purchase prices).

Ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) and some RRAM technologies have some niche applications and with the use of HfO FRAM, the number of niche markets available for FRAM could increase in number.

Moving to a nonvolatile solid-state main memory and cache memory will reduce power usage directly as well as enable new power-saving modes, provide faster recovery from power off and enable more stable computer architectures that retain their state even when power is off. Eventually, spintronic technology, that uses spin rather than current for logic processes, could be used to make future microprocessors. Spin-based logic could enable very efficient in-memory processing.

The use of a nonvolatile technology as an embedded memory combined with CMOS logic has great importance in the electronics industry. As a replacement for a multi-transistor SRAM, STT MRAM could reduce the number of transistors and thus provide a low cost, higher-density solution. A number of enterprise and consumer devices use MRAM, acting as an embedded cache memory, and all of the major foundry companies are offering MRAM as embedded memory in SoC products.

The availability of STT MRAM has accelerated this trend and allows higher capacities. Because of the compatibility of MRAM and STT-RAM processes with conventional CMOS processes, these memories can be built directly on top of CMOS logic wafers or potentially incorporated during CMOS manufacturing. Flash memory doesn't have the same compatibility with conventional CMOS. The power savings of nonvolatile and simpler MRAM and STT MRAM, when compared with SRAM, is significant. As MRAM $/GB costs approach those of SRAM, this replacement could cause significant market expansion.

Key Topics Covered:

The Authors

Executive Summary

Introduction

Why Emerging Memories Are Popular

• Scaling Limits for Entrenched Technologies
• 3D Nand Flash Technologies
• Future Flash Memories
• Embedded Nor and Sram Scaling Challenges
• Standalone Nand & Dram Scaling Concerns
• Technical Advantages
• Alternatives to Using Emerging Memories
• Potential Cost/Gb Advantages
• The Crucial Importance of the Economies of Scale
• Which Applications Want Emerging Memories First?

How a New Memory Layer Improves Computer Performance

• How Persistence Changes the Memory/Storage Hierarchy (Storage Class Memories)
• Stt Mram
• Reram
• Changes in Computer Memory Usage
• Standardizing the Persistent Memory Software Interface
• In-Memory Computing Possibilities
• Fewer Constraints on Mcu Programmers

Understanding Bit Selectors

Resistive Ram, Reram, Rram, Memristor

• Reram Device Function
• Symetrix' Ceram
• Hp's Memristor
• Stacked Reram Arrays
• Reram Cmos Integration
• 3D Stacked Reram Crosspoint Specifications
• 3D Nand Approach to Reram
• Reram and Artificial Intelligence
• Current Reram Status
• Ferroelectric Ram, Feram, Fram
• Operation of Fram
• Fram Device Characteristics

Ferroelectric Field Effect Transistor Ram (Fefet)

• 3D Fefet Fram
• Antiferroelectrics and Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions
• The Future of Fram

Phase Change Memory (Pcm)

• Operation of Pcm
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Pcm Applications
• Intel/Micron 3D Crosspoint Memory
• Applications

Mram (Magnetic Ram), Stt Mram (Spin Transfer Torque Mram)

• Mram
• Stt Mram
• How Stt Works
• Stt Manufacturing
• Stt Strengths & Weaknesses
• Spin-Orbit Torque Mram
• Meram, An Alternative Spin Memory Device
• Racetrack Memory
• Mram in Artificial Intelligence

Other Emerging Memory Types

• Carbon Nanotubes (Cnts)
• Polymeric Ferroelectric Ram (Pfram)
• Iii-V Floating Gate
• Lithography:
• Multi-Patterning:
• Future Lithography
• Nano-Imprinting Lithography
• Extreme Uv (Euv) Technology

3D Memory Circuit Design

• 3D Memory Circuit Approaches

Summary of Solid-State Memory & Storage Technologies

Emerging Memories and New Materials

Emerging Memory Process Equipment

• Mram and Stt Mram Process Equipment
• Physical Vapor Deposition
• Ion Beam and Plasma Etching
• Photolithography (Patterning)
• Other Process Equipment
• Device Testing
• Mram and Stt Mram Consortia
• Phase Change Manufacturing Equipment

Memory is Driving Semiconductor Capital Spending

Market Projections for Mram, and 3D Xpoint Memory

• Mram Scenario Estimates
• 3D Xpoint Banded Estimates
• Combined Emerging Memory Estimates

Estimates of Mram Capital Equipment Demand

• Ion Beam Etching Equipment
• Patterning Equipment
• Magnetic Annealing Equipment
• Physical Vapor Deposition Equipment
• Test and Other Equipment
• Summary of Mram Equipment Demand

Company Information

• Memory and Applications Companies
• 4Ds Memory
• Adesto Technologies
• Ambiq
• Antaios
• Arm
• Avalanche Technology
• Bae Systems
• Besang
• Caes
• Cao-Sip
• Cea-Leti
• Cerfe Labs
• Cies
• Cobham-Aeroflex
• Crocus Technology
• Crossbar
• Cypress
• Dialog Semiconductor
• Evaderis
• Everspin
• Ferroelectric Memory Company
• Fujitsu Semiconductor
• Gigadevice Semiconductor, Inc
• Globalfoundries
• Grandis
• Great
• Hpe
• Honeywell
• Ibm
• Imec
• Institute of Microelectronics (Chinese Academy of Science)
• Infineon
• Integrated Device Technology (Idt)
• Intel
• Intermolecular
• Intrinsic
• Kioxia
• Knowm
• Lapis Semiconductor
• Leti
• Microchip
• Micron Technology
• Microsemi
• Namlab
• Nantero
• Nec
• Numem
• Nuvoton
• Nve
• Nxp
• Ovonyx
• Panasonic
• Qualcomm
• Rambus
• Ramtron
• Reliance Memory
• Renesas Electronics
• Rohm
• Samsung Semiconductor
• Sandisk
• Seagate Technology
• Sk Hynix
• Sony Corporation
• Spin-Ion
• Spin Memory
• Spintec
• Stmicroelectronics
• Symetrix
• Tdk
• Texas Instruments
• Thin Film Electronics
• Unidym
• Weebit Nano
• Western Digital
• Winbond
• Semiconductor Fab Companies
• Db Hitek
• Globalfoundries
• Silterra
• Smic
• Towerjazz
• Tsmc
• Umc
• Capital Equipment Companies
• Accretech
• Anelva
• Applied Materials
• Asm
• Asml
• Bruker
• Canon
• Canon-Anelva
• Capres A/S
• Eg Systems
• Hitachi High Technology
• Hprobe
• Integral Solutions, Inc. (Isi)
• Jusung Engineering
• Keysight Technologies
• Kla Tencor
• Lake Shore
• Lam Research
• Leuven Instruments
• Magoasis
• Microsense
• Nanomagnetics Instruments
• Nanometrics
• Neoark
• Nikon
• Onto Innovation
• Oxford Instruments
• Plasma Therm
• Shb
• Singulus Technologies
• Smart Tip
• Tokyo Electron
• Tokyo Seimitsu
• Ulvac
• Veeco

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