What Exactly IS “Storage Class Memory”?

Single-quadrant chart with Bandwidth runing horizontally and cost vertically. Shows where HDD, DRAM, and NAND flash fit, and has an undefined Storage Class Memory block in the center.If you ask any two people in the computing industry to define the term “Storage Class Memory” you’re likely to get three or more answers.  That’s because the term isn’t well defined anywhere.

Some people use it for emerging memory technologies like MRAM, ReRAM, FRAM, and PCM/XPoint.  Others include NAND flash, even in the form of Continue reading “What Exactly IS “Storage Class Memory”?”

Video: The Inner Workings of SiO ReRAM

A cartoon of the atoms in a memory cell for an oxygen vacancy resistive RAMThis post shares a new and entertaining animation by Charlotte Streeter that offers one interpretation of the inner workings of one type of SiO-based nonvolatile memory like those described in Ron Neale’s most recent post on The Memory Guy.

The video links the observed electrical characteristics to the structural Continue reading “Video: The Inner Workings of SiO ReRAM”