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THE INTERNATIONAL ROADMAP FOR DEVICES AND SYSTEMS: 2023
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Table of Contents
Contributors ...................................................................................................................... viii
Summary ............................................................................................................................. 1
Solid State .....................................................................................................................................1
HDD...............................................................................................................................................1
Tape ..............................................................................................................................................1
Optical ...........................................................................................................................................2
DNA Storage ..................................................................................................................................2
Solid State Storage ............................................................................................................... 3
NAND Flash Storage .......................................................................................................................3
Situation Analysis ................................................................................................................................. 3
Business/Technical Issues .................................................................................................................... 7
Roadmap of Quantified Key Attribute Needs .................................................................................... 13
Critical Issues ...................................................................................................................................... 14
Technology Needs: Research, Development, Implementation ......................................................... 15
Gaps and Showstoppers ..................................................................................................................... 15
Recommendations on Priorities and Alternative Technologies ......................................................... 16
Other Emerging Solid State Memory Technologies ........................................................................ 16
Situation Analysis ............................................................................................................................... 16
Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FRAM or FeRAM) ................................................................ 17
Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) ........................................................................................................ 18
Resistive RAM (RRAM or ReRAM) ...................................................................................................... 19
Comparing the Technologies .............................................................................................................. 21
Storage Class Memory (SCM) ....................................................................................................... 23
Situation Analysis ............................................................................................................................... 23
The Intel/Micron 3D XPoint Memory ................................................................................................. 24
BUSINESS/TECHNICAL ISSUES ............................................................................................................ 25
Gaps and Showstoppers ..................................................................................................................... 26
Recommendations on Priorities And Alternative Technologies ........................................................ 27
Compute Express Link (CXL) ......................................................................................................... 28
Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Technology ..................................................................................... 30
Situation Analysis ........................................................................................................................ 30
Business/Technical Issues ............................................................................................................ 31
Manufacturing Equipment ................................................................................................................. 31
Manufacturing Processes ................................................................................................................... 32
Materials ............................................................................................................................................ 33
Roadmap of Key Attribute Needs ................................................................................................. 37
Critical Issues ............................................................................................................................... 39
Business Vitality.................................................................................................................................. 39
Areal Density Growth Rate ................................................................................................................. 39
Competition from Solid State Drives (SSDs) ....................................................................................... 40
Technology Needs: Research, Development, Implementation ......................................................... 40
Gaps and Showstoppers ..................................................................................................................... 41
Recommendations on Priorities and Alternative Technologies ...................................................... 43
Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) .................................................................................................. 43
Sealed Helium Drive ........................................................................................................................... 44
Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) ....................................................................................... 45
Energy assisted Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (EPMR) ............................................................. 47
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