Economic Impact

Over the past 30 years, the electronics industry has grown into the largest business sector of the economy. Perhaps as importantly, its products also underpin productivity improvements in all manufacturing and service sectors. This enabling process can only continue if past levels of improvement in performance and cost can be maintained. The electronics industry is strong because it has NOT relied on a single technology or class of components. Many have been created, evolved productively and been replaced by others. We face such a transition for future memory technology. All of today's memory designs face increasing problems in meeting the ITRS projections and the time is right for another transition - to PMCm.