IDG.net schrijft dat de geheugenbouwers Infineon en Toshiba een samenwerkings- verband zijn aangegaan om FeRAM te ontwikkelen. FeRAM moet veel minder energie gaan verbruiken als het DRAM en SRAM van tegenwoordeg en daarnaast zal er geen data verloren gaan als de spanning verloren gaat. Infineon en Toshiba zullen elk 50% van de kosten betalen en als alles goed gaat komen de eerste 32Mb chips eind 2002 op de markt:
"These FeRAMs use very little power. Also there's specific techniques so you can make them very small. That's why they are very attractive for mobile applications," he said. He added that the companies expect a commercial application, a 32Mb chip for use in mobile phones, to be available by late 2002. Depending on market conditions, they plan future collaboration on 64Mb and even 128Mb devices.
[...] The announcement comes just days after Infineon and IBM released details of a joint project to develop MRAM (magnetic RAM) technology, which stores information using magnetic rather than electric charges.
Like FeRAM, MRAM can store information when switched off, said Dittert. But at the current stage of development, FeRAM is faster, while MRAM can store more data, making the latter technology more suited for laptop computers, he said. MRAM is also further from the market, with commercial launch projected by 2004.