Future memory technology: challenges and opportunities

Future memory technologies are assessed in views of challenges and opportunities. The challenges which future memory confronts with are not just from technical challenges, but from techno-economical issues which become much critical. In this study, two most important memories: DRAM and NAND flash will be discussed in respects of challenges and opportunities and PRAM will be discussed as one of the important new emerging non-volatile random access memories (RAM).

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