TSMC and ERSO show off magnetic RAM chip

1MB by year end

A REPORT IN TODAY'S Taiwan Economic News says that megafoundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and the Electronic Research & Service Organisation (ERSO) have showed off a 1K magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) chip.
And the two together promise to have 1MB products out by the end of the year, the newspaper says.

MRAM is an interesting breakthrough in memory technology because it offers extremely low power consumption matched with fast write and read speeds.

The Taiwanese quango and TSMC are in a race to produce devices just like Big Blue, Samsung and Motorola.

The prototype chipolata was produced using a .18µ (micron) process, but TSMC's capacities aren't as great as its competitors NEC, Big Blue and Samsung.

According to the Economic News, the cunning plan is to integrate the MRAM with system on a chip devices

From: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15907