Toshiba Moving to 3D Memory with New Factory

[exfileme]

Toshiba plans to take NAND to a new level...vertical!

Toshiba Moving to 3D Memory with New Factory : Read more

 

[Guest]

Don't left the label fool you..

lol spelling error.

 

[rocky1234]

you may be "right"

 

[mianmian]

Good. One does not need glasses to utilize this 3-D technology.

 

[Soul_keeper]

That playboy link should get an article of it's own

 

[thejerk]

Nanometers don't get smaller. Fab processes do, however.

 

[sandypants]

Wouldn't building them in 3D cause heat issues, or are they expecting the 20nm fab to be that cool...

 

[cheepstuff]

20nm... we are getting close to the size limit on transistors. hopefully stacking works as well as the engineers claim it will...

 

[elel]

I seem to remember reading something about stuff like this talked about in a book published in '03 or so. Not a new idea.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Hopefully stacking doesn't make it even hotter.

 

[eyemaster]

[citation][nom]mianmian[/nom]Good. One does not need glasses to utilize this 3-D technology.[/citation]
You might need glasses to see any details in the chip, really really good magnifying glasses...

 

[gm0n3y]

If they were only expanding horizontally before and are now expanding vertically, wouldn't this be a shift from 1D to 2D? I assume this just means that the chips will be getting taller (i.e. sticking out farther from the board). 3D would be in the shape of a cube.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]cube is exactly what they mean[/citation]
Ok, that is odd. I'll be interested to see how they can get around the obvious heat dissipation issue.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]cube is exactly what they mean[/citation]
Also:

"the company plans to build vertically as well as horizontally" doesn't really convey the cube-iness of it.

And "nanometers grow smaller" should probably be "nanometers grow fewer" (though it sounds odd even if it is more correct).