Product category: Memory Devices and Modules
News Release from: Silicon Image
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 05 May 2008
Working group to define mobile memory
interface
Serial Port Memory Technology will enable extended battery life, bandwidth flexibility, significantly reduced pin count, lower power demand and multiple ports by using a serial interface.
ARM, Hynix Semiconductor, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and STMicroelectronics have set up a working group to specify an open standard for next-generation memory interface technology targeting mobile devices This first-of-its-kind memory standard for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), named Serial Port Memory Technology (SPMT), will enable extended battery life, bandwidth flexibility, significantly reduced pin count, lower power demand and multiple ports by using a serial interface instead of the parallel interface commonly used in today's memory devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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