resistive RAM

Research institute Leti and low-volume wafer service CMP are cooperating on a project to let fabless chipmakers explore the use of non-volatile resistive RAMs in their designs.

Panasonic and AIST have turned a resistive memory (RRAM) into a hydrogen sensor that they claim works at much lower energy than existing designs.

Among the papers at this year's VLSI Symposia in Hawaii in June, Samsung will describe a 7nm CMOS process that uses EUV lithography to tighten up device features on minimum-pitch interconnects.

A novel approach to 3D NAND will be among the presentations at the International Electron Device Meeting to be held in Washington, DC in December.

As plans crystallize to take FD-SOI down to 10nm, CEA-Leti argues that the technology can provide an alternative path to that of finFETs to get to 7nm processes and beyond.