Session 11 overview / memory: Non-volatile memory solutions

Summary form only given. The question on everyone's mind is: “When is the NAND party over?” As other emerging technologies chase the leader with the advantages they bring to bear, beating the cost of NAND is very difficult. The hope for these technologies is that NAND would eventually run into a wall. However, NAND engineers manage to keep moving ahead and getting around barriers that laws of physics erect for them. There are always people proclaiming that the end of NAND is just around the corner, but that corner seems like a mirage. In the meanwhile, the emerging memories are not sitting idle either. They are making very good progress and are finding areas of opportunities where their technical advantages over NAND allow them be adopted in some applications. This year has a very exciting series of papers that showcase the progress that both NAND and emerging memories are making.