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LONDON - Memory IC maker SK Hynix Inc. has agreed to develop nonvolatile phase-change memory technology and products with IBM. SK Hynix will manufacture the memories, which will offer multi-level cell capability and be aimed at storage for servers.
SK Hynix is planning to produce phase-change random access memories (PCRAMs) for use in power-efficient servers, so called storage class memories (SCMs). The company is now covering three bets on future memory technology with agreements in place with Toshiba on magnetic RAM, with Hewlett-Packard Co. on resistive RAM (ReRAM), and with IBM on PCRAM.
SK Hynix did not provide a timetable for the introduction of commercial products based on phase-change memory (PCM) technology nor provide an indication of what memory capacity would be targeted or what minimum geometry manufacturing process would be used to produce the memories.
The combination of IBM's expertise in such disciplines as MLC and...