Good bye DRAM

DRAM is the most efficient memory technology today created almost 45 years ago by IBM. The Korean firm Hynix licensed ZRAM technology from a tiny company based in the tiny nation of Switzerland.


ZRAM is poised to replace DRAM by overcoming a fundamental problem of DRAM - the need for capacitors to store the memory. So far, cannot be miniturised as much as other memory components. This is achieved by using insulated transistor instead of capacitors.

This technique was targeted to replace RAM (used in microprocessors) and SRAM (used in embedded devices or peripherals). But some engineering problems hasn't been solved yet.