Paper Title: Future Directions for NAND Flash and Memory Technologies

Paper Abstract: The potential of modern electronic systems and devices is effectively limited by memory latency and power consumption. Yet, access times (latency) have hardly improved over 20 years and mobile devices strain to power their embedded memory. Join experts from NEO Semiconductor as they present alternatives for innovating SDRAM with architectural and design changes that lower activation latency by 50% and refresh power consumption by 85% without increasing die cost.

Paper Author: Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates
Andy Walls, IBM Fellow, CTO FlashSystem, IBM

Author Bio: Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a widely respected digital storage analyst as well as a business and technology consultant. He has over 35 years in the data storage industry with engineering and management positions at high profile companies. Dr. Coughlin has many publications and six patents to his credit. Tom is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide, which is now in its second edition with Springer. Coughlin Associates provides market and technology analysis as well as Data Storage Technical and Business Consulting services. Tom publishes the Digital Storage Technology Newsletter, the Media and Entertainment Storage Report, the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory Report and other industry reports. Tom is also a regular contributor on digital storage for Forbes.com and other blogs. Tom is active with SMPTE (Journal article writer and Conference Program Committee), SNIA (including a founder of the SNIA SSSI), the IEEE, (he is past Chair of the IEEE Public Visibility Committee, Past Director for IEEE Region 6, President Elect for IEEE USA and active in the Consumer Electronics Society) and other professional organizations. Tom was the founder and organizer of the Annual Storage Visions Conference (storagevisions.com as well as the Creative Storage Conference (creativestorage.org). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV). For more information on Tom Coughlin and his publications and activities, go to www.tomcoughlin.com.

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