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Semiconductor Memory Challenges Will Be Overcome, MemCon Keynoter Says-August 8, 2013 |
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Just a few hundred yards from twisting and turning amusement park roller-coasters, Martin Lund took his audience on another thrill ride on Tuesday morning: a journey through the state of today's semiconductor memory business.
For decades, that semiconductor memory business--primarily DRAMs and SRAMs--was driven by one main application computing--primarily PC computing. Even with that architectural predictability (faster, denser, smaller), semiconducdtor memory prices went on roller coaster rides because of the commodity nature of the business.