Marin, Switzerland—EM Microelectronic has added two new members to its Theseus family of devices designed for smart card applications. The EMTG30 and EMTG56 are flash memory-based smart-card ICs ...

Motorola Semiconductor (Austin, TX) has demonstrated the first 4-Mbit memory device based on silicon nanocrystals. The test chip represents a major milestone in the search for a successor to present ...

Automotive systems OEMs are starting to demand a new breed of flash ICs which can support the requirements of functional safety design at the system level better than previous generations of devices.

Flash memory has deeply penetrated consumer goods with its rising densities and falling price/bit. But new technologies will try to replace it. Flash memory is on a roll. It has gone from a backup, ...

What is NAND flash memory? NAND flash is a type of nonvolatile memory that is accessed like a mass storage device (e.g., a hard drive). A form of electronically erasable programmable readonly memory ...

The persistent need for small-density memory in today’s market. Why embedded applications need small-density NOR flash memory. What are the best options for small-density NOR flash? Companies that ...