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Crossbar Searching for Funding and Customers for its ReRAM Products to Compete with Intel's Optane

posted by janrinok on Thursday February 21 2019, @12:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the vaporware-sandwich dept.

takyon writes:

Crossbar, which has talked up its version of a post-NAND memory/storage technology for years with little to show for it, now has to compete with the elephant in the room:

Crossbar, developer of Resistive RAM (ReRAM) chips, is setting up an AI consortium to help counter, er, resistance to the technology, speed up its adoption, and hopefully outrun Intel's Optane.

ReRAM is a type of non-volatile memory with DRAM-class access latency. So, flash-style solid-state storage with RAM-ish access. However, it is taking a long time to mature into a practical technology that can be deployed in devices to fill the gap between large-capacity, non-volatile, relatively slow NAND, and high-speed, relatively low capacity, volatile DRAM.

[...] Crossbar claims it can design "super dense 3D cross-point arrays, stackable with the capability to scale below 10nm, paving the way for terabytes on a single die." Beat that, Optane. Check out a white paper from the upstart here (registration needed.)

Crossbar continued to develop its ReRAM, inking a licensing agreement with Microsemi in May last year, involving the use of sub-10nm ReRAM tech in coming Microsemi products.

[...] Crossbar says it's working with Japanese authorities to review opportunities for the 2020 Olympics, including video-based event detection and response capability. We'll see if anything comes of that.

Previously: Crossbar 3D Resistive RAM Heads to Commercialization

Related: SanDisk and HP Announce Potential Competitor to XPoint Memory
Fujitsu to Mass Produce Nantero-Licensed NRAM in 2018
Two Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Papers
Intel Announces the Optane SSD 900P: Cheaper 3D XPoint for Desktops
Intel Unveils 58 GB and 118 GB Optane SSDs
Rambus and Gigadrive Form Joint Venture to Commercialize Resistive RAM
Micron Buys Out Intel's Stake in 3D XPoint Joint Venture

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday February 21 2019, @06:22AM (2 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Thursday February 21 2019, @06:22AM (#804402)

    Guess I'm showing my age here, but my dad was a manager of a Southwestern Bell regional toll switching center in west Texas in the late '50s. Playing around with discarded phone equipment, getting into Boy Scout radio merit badges, and amateur radio got me into electronics. Right now I'm wondering if the Bell Labs/ Western Electric copyright on the term "crossbar" has run out, or if the Santa Clara company somehow acquired the right to the term?
    http://www.historyofphonephreaking.org/docs/blr-1953-10-4a-crossbar-toll.pdf [historyofphonephreaking.org]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class-4_telephone_switch [wikipedia.org]
    http://etler.com/docs/WECo/Fundamentals/files/8-CrossbarNo5.pdf [etler.com]

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    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday February 21 2019, @10:08AM (1 child)

      by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Thursday February 21 2019, @10:08AM (#804452) Journal

      You mean trademark. And the same name can cover dissimilar products.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark [wikipedia.org]

      A registered trademark confers a bundle of exclusive rights upon the registered owner, including the right to exclusive use of the mark in relation to the products or services for which it is registered. The law in most jurisdictions also allows the owner of a registered trademark to prevent unauthorized use of the mark in relation to products or services which are identical or "colourfully" similar to the "registered" products or services, and in certain cases, prevent use in relation to entirely dissimilar products or services. The test is always whether a consumer of the goods or services will be confused as to the identity of the source or origin. An example may be a very large multinational brand such as "Sony" where a non-electronic product such as a pair of sunglasses might be assumed to have come from Sony Corporation of Japan despite not being a class of goods that Sony has rights in.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 21 2019, @10:21PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 21 2019, @10:21PM (#804742)

        This is absolutely correct, and the reason why I registered the trademark I use for programming across every category there was a tick-box for. Befucked if someone's using my high quality trademark for any sock I'm not taking a clip from!

        Seriously though, I couldn't hope to out-lawyer even a modest sock knitter ... protect the little guy, my-ass.

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