Nano-RAM
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Nano-RAM is a proprietary computer memory technology from the company Nantero. It is a type of nonvolatile random-access memory based on the position of carbon nanotubes deposited on a chip-like substrate. In theory, the small size of the nanotubes allows for very high density memories. Nantero also refers to it as NRAM.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Nantero, Inc.
- Company.logo
- NanteroBannerLogo.png
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.industry
- Semiconductors, nanotechnology
- Company.foundation
- 2001
- Company.defunct
- 2024
- Company.fate
- Sold off to Micron Technologies (partially), the rest auctioned
- Company.location_city
- Woburn, Massachusetts
- Company.location_country
- US
- Company.products
- Nano-RAM
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Nano-RAM is a proprietary computer memory technology from the company Nantero. It is a type of nonvolatile random-access memory based on the position of carbon nanotubes deposited on a chip-like substrate. In theory, the small size of the nanotubes allows for very high density memories. Nantero also refers to it as NRAM.
==Technology== The first generation Nantero NRAM technology was based on a three-terminal semiconductor device where a third terminal is used to switch the memory cell between memory states. The second generation NRAM technology is based on a two-terminal memory cell. The two-terminal cell has advantages such as a smaller cell size, better scalability to sub-20 nm nodes (see semiconductor device fabrication), and the ability to passivate the memory cell during fabrication.
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