Unity Seeks to Give Your Digital Toys a Memory Boost

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  1. Unity Seeks to Give Your Digital Toys a Memory Boost The big chip news this morning is about a 7-year-old company coming out with a completely new technology that it believes has the potential to replace the type of memory used to store data in phones, MP3 players and solid-state hard drives. Unity Semiconductor also said it’s raised $22 million from Morgenthaler, Lightspeed Venture Partners and August Capital, bringing the total it’s raised to create its chips to $75 million. The Unity silicon will use the movement of ions, rather than electrons and transistors, to store information. The result is yet another competitor to NAND Flash memory, which retains information ... (Read Full Article)

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