4DS - Anything but Charting, page-5865

Siva Sivaram
Flash Memory Summit 2016


bit old now , but Very Relevant to the 4DS technology


" I have been in this Business now , this is my 4th Decade. Intel was founded in 1967 to make DRams , Drams and Srams were there in the 60's , to this day there in No other New Memory on the left side of this graph.

(.Sram ..Dram )....( S C M? ) ....( Flash...Hdd..)

We are now trying to say
we need to Bridge that Gap and we are trying to create something called a
Storage Class Memory

A storage class memory that is reasonably less expensive compared to Dram and probably a little more expensive than Flash
That Gap is Very Important
currently the Dram to Flash Gap is 30x

How do I Bridge that Gap, you can't go too far from NAND and you have to go far enough from Dram
thats the problem we are currently trying to solve.
When the access time is very slow you can make a fast SSD , or you can extend it to the Dram
When you go More and More to the Memory Side , that's when the Action Starts to Heat up .!
Then you can start to Replace the Dram with a Non Volatile Memory

Now you can start to move into Mobile Applications
and later on when a
Universal Memory is created
you can get into an (Iot) Internet of Things kind of application

then the Market Takes Off !

Internally We Believe that When that happens

When I can go into a Dram Replacement and Universal Memory Mode

I can get too 10's of Billions of $'s in this Market..
that's the Motivation behind

Storage Class Memory ..."