The claimed advantage of Intrinsic’s technology compared with other RRAM implementations is that it uses standard semiconductor materials, namely silicon dioxide, making it CMOS compliant and therefore more cost effective for foundries to produce using existing chip manufacturing facilities.
This will allow data-intensive applications to overcome the current memory bottleneck imposed by having to use external flash memory components, the company added, thereby delivering higher performance with reduced energy consumption. Under this view, RRAM will enable self-contained applications and devices to process more data, perhaps enabling them to operate more complex machine learning models than would otherwise have been feasible.
Intrinsic reckons its RRAM tech could “read data 10x to 100x faster and write it 1,000x faster than existing solutions”, which reminded us of something. Oh yes, Intel’s 3D XPoint memory, later marketed as Optane, was supposed to beThe company’s investors clearly believe that Intrinsic’s RRAM can succeed where 3D XPoint failed to meet expectations.