Overview of advanced Non-Volatile Memory technology

Summary form only given: The explosion of the digital consumer electronic market has been also sustained by the availability of successful Non-Volatile semiconductor Memory (NVM) technologies. The key driver has been Flash memory, both in NOR and NAND architecture, which are the preeminent NVM technologies for code and data storage application in portable electronic systems. The needs for higher performance and higher density memory will continuously grow, driven by the convergence of the mobile systems and by the needs of huge amount of memory for the long video recording. In this contest, the industrial interest in exploring new technologies, which must be able to guarantee a density increase and to be cost-competitive with the actual NAND Flash, is increasing. The presentation will give an overview of the innovative NVM technologies, which have been recently presented, with a special focus on the phase change memory technology based on chalcogenide material.