1. IEDM 2009 Baltimore MD December 7-9, 2009 Conference Report Dirk Wouters IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution1

2. General comments With over 30 high quality selected papers on memory, IEDM remains one of the top conferences on (Non-Volatile) Memory 6 Sessions do explicitely mention “memory” in their title Topics cover different types of NVM, with number of papers reflecting their importance (Flash > PCM > RRAM > MRAM > FRAM) IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution2

3. Memory sessions 6 (out of 38) IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution3

4. Memory papers : #31 Flash : 14 (most on Charge Trap concepts) PCM: 7 (3 from Numonyx, highlight on 1Gb 45nm PCM prototype) RRAM: 5 (4 on metaloxide RRAM, 1 on CBRAM electrolytic type) MRAM: 2 (focus on STT MRAM) FERAM: 1 Other: 2 TOTAL: 31 IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution4

5. General/Invited 27.7 Future directions of NVM in compute applications (A.Fazio, intel) Indicated memory market growth opportunities in a new market segment. Compute memory is an opportunity for NAND, with SSD replacing HDD. New (RRAM) memory technologies may even offer better (DRAM-like) performance (so called storage class memory) so that NVM may cover even more positions upfront in the memory hierarchy, but cost and scaling are still open issues! IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution5

6. Flash papers #14 CT ~9 FG 3D~3 A lot of papers on Flash, especially on Charge Trap Flash that is seen as possible scaling solution, either in 2D or in 3D (BICS) approach IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution6

7. Papers on Flash memories/1 IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution7

8. Papers on Flash memories/2 IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution8

9. Papers on Flash memories/3 IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution9

10. Papers on Flash memories/4 IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution10

11. Papers on Flash memories/5 IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution11

12. Papers on PCM : #7 Highlights: – 45nm 1Gb demonstrator by Numonyx – Use of new type selector (OTS) for Xbar memory architecture (Intel) IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution12

13. Papers on PCM /1 Numonyx Samsung IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution13

14. Papers on PCM /2 intel IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution14

15. Papers on PCM /3 Numonyx IBM IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution15

16. Transistor switching NTUS-Singapore Interesting link HK MOSFET learning to RRAM IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution16

17. Papers on RRAM : #5 Highlights: – Further progress of HfO RRAM (ITRI group) makes this very interesting candidate for OxRRAM IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution17

18. Papers on RRAM /1 GIST-Korea ITRI-Taiwan TSMC-Taiwan IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution18

19. Papers on RRAM /2 NEC IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution19

20. Papers on MRAM : #2 Highlights: – STT MRAM keeps triggering interest from companies (Macronix, Intel) IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution20

21. MRAM : TSMC Intel IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution21

22. Papers on FRAM : #1 Actually only university interest is continuing on FeRAM...looks far from real application IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution22

23. FeRAM : Univ of Tokyo IEDM 2009 Conference Report - D.Wouters, IMEC - WIND project distribution23