Semiconductor Engineering

Improving DRAM Performance Using Dual Work-Function Metal Gate (DWMG) Structures

Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) serves as the backbone of modern computing, enabling devices ranging from smartphones to high-performance servers. As the demand accelerates for higher density and ...
EDN

DRAM basics and its quest for thermal stability by optimizing peripheral transistors

For decades, compute architectures have relied on dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) as their main memory, providing temporary storage from which processing units retrieve data and program code. The ...
techtarget

Compare DRAM vs. DRAM-less SSDs for cost, performance

To DRAM or not to DRAM? That is the question. Most SSDs use internal DRAM for various housekeeping functions. However, DRAM-less SSDs use some of the host server's DRAM to do everything that a typical ...
EDN

A new platform for thermally stable DRAM peripheral transistors

Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips contain many other transistors besides the access transistor to enable full operation of the DRAM memory. These peripheral transistors must meet stringent ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Data Integrity For JEDEC DRAM Memories

With the DRAM fabrication advancing from 1x to 1y to 1z and further to 1a, 1b, and 1c nodes along with the DRAM device speeds going up to 8533 for LPDDR5 and 8800 for DDR5, data integrity is becoming ...