GLOBALFOUNDRIES Enters into Joint Development Agreement with T-RAM

GLOBALFOUNDRIES recently announced that it has entered into a joint development agreement with T-RAM Semiconductor Inc. (T-RAM) targeted toward the application of T-RAM’s Thyristor-RAM embedded memory to advanced technology nodes. The news was covered by a variety of technology media outlets, including:

GlobalFoundries, T-RAM promise denser caches
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Excerpt: Future AMD processors may end up with denser caches than expected—as could other chips manufactured by AMD's former foundry arm. Indeed, GlobalFoundries has announced a joint development agreement with T-RAM, as part of which the two firms will bring T-RAM's Thyristor-RAM embedded memory technology to "advanced technology nodes."

 

Excerpt: T-RAM Semiconductor Inc., a nine-year old company, has announced that it has entered into a joint development agreement aimed at applying T-RAM's thyristor-RAM embedded memory to 32- and 22-nm manufacturing process nodes from GlobalFoundries Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.). The details of the agreement were not disclosed, but in essence it appears to be a development agreement that will result in GlobalFoundries being licensed and able to offer the thyristor-RAM, and which could then be used by the foundry's customers, including Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

 

Excerpt: It is also announced today that GLOBALFOUNDRIES is partnering with T-RAM, the inventor of the Thyristor-RAM embedded memory technology.  GF hopes to implement this technology into its leading edge 32 nm process, in both bulk and SOI form.  This form of embedded memory can greatly increase the capacity of embedded memories, all the while keeping die sizes down.  While it certainly will not replace more traditional 6T-SRAM cells and other FET based technologies, it could very we find a place in designs the require large amounts of memory without the power consumption of more traditional embedded memory technologies.

 

 

Excerpt: GLOBAL FOUNDRIES has teamed up with the folks at T-Ram Semiconductor, signing a joint development agreement to use T-Ram's Thyristor-RAM embedded memory in fabs for the development of advanced technology nodes. . . . Indeed, one of the key advantages for Global Foundries, and the reason the fab firm seems to have picked T-Ram, is the technology's scalability as the foundry pushes towards implementing Thyristor-RAM at the 32 nm node and beyond.

 

 

Excerpt: T-RAM Semiconductor of Milpitas California has licensed its embedded Thyristor-RAM (T-RAM) technology for 32nm and 22nm applications to Globalfoundries the Abu Dhabi-backed foundry company spun out of AMD. . . . "T-RAM's embedded memory technology shows a great deal of potential for use in low-power, high-performance dense cache applications for advanced technology nodes," said Gregg Bartlett, senior vice president of technology and R&D at Globalfoundries.
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