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Elpida to make faster DRAM transistors
DDR-2 to speed up no end
Mon Jan 05 2004, 09:55
JAPANESE MEMORY maker Elpida, which has received bounties from chip giant Intel, has created a technique to
speed up DRAM chips, it claims.
According to a report on nikkei.net, Elpida has banged out a DDR-2 512Mbit chip with a read and write speed of 666Mbps.
That's 25 times faster than existing DDR-2 technology, apparently.
According to the report, Elpida is using boron rather than phosphorous as the doping ageny for its silicon chips.
The gate electrode is insulated using a nitride rather than a dioxide material, and will introduce the chips towards the end of this year.
Just before the New Year, Elpida severed its connection with ProMOS and forged a new agreement with Chinese semiconductor firm SMIC. ยต
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