Leuven, Belgium – July 14, 2009 – IMEC has achieved promising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below. The breakthroughs from its transistor scaling programs include a successful integration of the laser-anneal technique in a high-K/metal-gate first process and a step forward towards fabricating aggressively scaled germanium-pFET transistors.
To scale CMOS technology [...]

The World’s Fastest 7.2GHz XDR Product
Elpida Memory, Inc. (Elpida)(TOKYO:6665), Japan’s leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today introduced the industry’s first 1-Gigabit XDR™ DRAM based on a x32-bit configuration. The new XDR product features the industry’s fastest ultra-high speed of 7.2GHz, which is faster than any GDDR5 memory chip, and provides a [...]

Power Consumption Comparable to Existing 8-Gigabyte Products
Elpida Memory, Inc. (Elpida), Japan’s leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it is ready to launch 16-gigabyte Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM), the world’s largest capacity FB-DIMM. Based on its own unique integrated packaging technology (stacked FBGA or sFBGA) with 2-gigabit DDR2 SDRAM [...]

At today’s VLSI Symposium, IMEC reports an improved performance for its planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-based metal gates for the 32nm CMOS node. The inverter delay advanced from 15ps to 10ps. IMEC also simplified its high-k/metal gate process by decreasing the number of process steps from 15 to 9.
High-performance (low-Vt) high-k/metal-gate CMOS [...]

Alliance for Joint Development of 4F² DRAM Cell
Qimonda AG (NYSE:QI) and Elpida Memory, Inc. (Tokyo SE: 6665), both leading global memory suppliers, today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a technology partnership on joint development of memory chips (DRAMs). In the planned cooperation, Qimonda will provide its know-how with the [...]

Mobile Computing Platform Start-Ups Fully Supported with Elpida’s DDR3 Mass Production Capabilities
Elpida Memory, Inc. (“Elpida”) today announced that it has received Intel’s validation for its next-generation main memory DDR3 SO-DIMM. The upcoming Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology mobile platform is supported by Elpida’s DDR3 SO-DIMM production capabilities.
Since completing development of its DDR3 SDRAM [...]