On Wednesday the 13th of December at 1:15pm, you are all invited to an interesting talk by Micron on Mobile Main Memories: System and Technology.
Paolo Amato, Emanuele Confalonieri and Marco Sforzin will explain why memories should be intended as the key component in all computing systems. Just think that last year DRAM market has reached the value of 69B$, out of 400B$ of the whole semiconductor market.
Moreover, the market feels a further boost to growth: users are eager of devices with always increasing performance which includes speed, power and capacity.
In order to meet the expected performance growth and to follow the evolving market requirements, main memory system must improve in size, technology, efficiency, cost, and management algorithms.
But mainstream memory technologies are reaching their scaling limits. Thus it’s paramount to work on different approaches: modify how the system uses main memory, change the architecture of memory devices, enable alternative technologies (emerging memories like 3D XPoint), and add functionalities to the memory systems (like error correcting codes and security primitives).
In this talk we’ll focus on mobile memories, which account for almost 50% of DRAM bits.
In particular we’ll review the memory hierarchy in the mobile systems, discuss mobile DRAM devices (like LPDD4), describe the main DRAM scaling limits, and look at what is coming next.
See you all on Wednesday 13th in room D11, Politecnico di Milano!
