For a number of years The Memory Guy has wanted to find a copy of the 1970 article, published in Electronics magazine, in which Intel’s Gordon Moore and two authors from Energy Conversion Devices, Ron Neale and D.L. Nelson, showed that PCM could be used as a memory device. After all, this is the technology behind Micron & Intel’s 3D XPoint Memory.
The cover of the magazine (this post’s graphic) has been used by Intel to promote its PCM or PRAM chips before those were spun off to Numonyx (now a part of Micron). Intel, though, didn’t appear to have anything to share but the cover photo.
Electronics magazine went out of business in 1995, and that makes the task of finding archive copies more challenging.
It recently occurred to me that the best person to ask might be the article’s lead author, Ron Neale, who has been a regular contributor to EE Times and who now also contributes blog posts to The Memory Guy.
I was astounded to discover that Continue reading “Original PCM Article from 1970”
