The Market For Nano-Enabled Memory and Storage

2006 & Beyond

Publication Date	February 2006
Publisher	NanoMarkets
Product Type	Report
Pages
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	NAN00013

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Summary

In the past few years the efforts on behalf of novel memories have begun to accelerate. There are several reasons for this. On the supply side, the new nano-oriented manufacturing tools that are emerging in the semiconductor sector are making it much easier to build novel semiconductor devices, at least in sampling and pilot production quantities.

But the semiconductor sector will not be building novel memories just because it can. Conventional memory technology has inherent limitations. DRAM is cheap but volatile and requires continual refresh. SRAM is faster but expensive and prone to soft errors and still volatile. Flash is non-volatile but slow. Both magnetic and optical storage are high capacity but running up against the limits of current technology.

This report covers the markets for FRAM, MRAM, ovonic memory, nanotube memory, molecular memory, polymer memory, holographic memory, MEMS-based memory systems and other memory technologies likely to be commercialized in the next decade.

The report identifies and quantifies the opportunities presented by these technologies and the timeframes in which they will emerge. The current state of the market for each of these technologies is identified, where they in R&D, sampling, pilot production, full-scale production? Where are the markets for these products are to be found. The report discusses which kinds of end product would use each of these technologies and in what context do they replace DRAM, SRAM, Flash, disk storage or some combination of these? Will they create entirely new products?

The role of key semiconductor companies and OEMs is also discussed, including the progress of some of the smaller firms active in this space. Particular attention is paid to how many of the competing nanomemory solutions can succeed and which ones they are most likely to be

Objectives of this report:

Quantifies current and future market opportunities.
Evaluates the viability of competing technology approaches.
Analyzes and comments on the efforts of both established and start-up companies in nanomemory.
Discusses the impact of nanomemory devices on the conventional memory-chip and disk-drive industry.

Content

Executive Summary
- E.1 Introduction
- E.2 Comparison of Technologies
- E.3 The Players
Chapter One: Introduction
- 1.1 Background to Report
- 1.2 Changes Since NanoMarkets 2004 Report
- 1.3 Objectives of this Report
- 1.4 Scope of this Report
- 1.5 Methodology of this Report
- 1.6 Plan of this Report
Chapter Two: Technologies Assessment
- 2.1 Storage Technology: Advantages, Disadvantages and Timeframes
- 2.2 Current Memory Technology and Its Limits
- 2.2.1 DRAM, SRAM and Flash
- 2.2.2 Limits of Current Technology
- 2.3 Magnetic Drives, Tapes and Nanotechnology
- 2.4 MRAM
- 2.4.1 MRAM: A Budding Industry?
- 2.5 FRAM
- 2.5.1 Ramtron and the Others
- 2.6 Holographic Memory
- 2.7 Non-Optical Phase Change/Ovonic Unified Memory
- 2.7.1 How Ovonic Memory Works
- 2.7.2 Ovonyx, the Intel Factor and Beyond
- 2.8 Molecular Memory
- 2.9 Carbon Nanotube (CNT) RAM
- 2.10 MEMS-Based Memory
- 2.11 Polymer Memory
- 2.12 Nanocrystals
- 2.13 Alternatives to Nanomemory
Chapter Three: Applications and Markets for Nanomemories
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Mobile Computing
- 3.2.1 The Rise of Pervasive Computing
- 3.2.2 Requirements of Pervasive Computing
- 3.2.3 Opportunities for Nanomemory in Mobile Computing
- 3.3 Home Computing and Consumer Electronics
- 3.3.1 Computing, Video and the Digital Home
- 3.3.2 Opportunities for Nanomemory in Consumer Electronics
- 3.4 Enterprise Computing and Telecommunications
- 3.4.1 IT and Telecom: Not Yet Dead
- 3.4.2 Opportunities for Nanomemory in IT
- 3.5 Cell Phones, GPS and Other Hand-Held Communications Devices
- 3.5.1 The Remaking of the Cell Phone Market
- 3.5.2 Cell Phones and Memories
- 3.6 Portable Recording and Display/Playback Devices
- 3.6.1 Of iPods, Memory and the Future
- 3.7 Control Systems and Embedded Computing
- 3.7.1 Overview of Embedded Computing
- 3.7.2 Memory Requirements for Embedded Computing
- 3.8 Sensors, Smart Cards, RFID and Other Disposable Products
- 3.8.1 The Wave of the Future?
- 3.8.2 Disposable Memories
- 3.9 Military/Aerospace
Chapter Four: Eight-Year Projections of Expenditures on Nanomemory Devices
- 4.1 A Justification for Forecasting
- 4.2 Forecasting Methodology
- 4.2.1 Addressable Markets
- 4.2.2 Competition Among Nanomemory Technologies
- 4.3 Eight-Year Forecasts of Nanomemory Technologies
- 4.3.1 MRAM
- 4.3.2 FRAM
- 4.3.3 Holographic Memory
- 4.3.4 Non-Optical Phase Change Media/Ovonic Unified Memory
- 4.3.5 Molecular Memory
- 4.3.6 Carbon Nanotube (CNT) RAM
- 4.3.7 MEMS-Based Memory
- 4.3.8 Polymer Memory
- 4.3.9 Nanocrystals
List of Exhibits
- Exhibit E-1: Key Characteristics of Nanomemory Technologies
- Exhibit E-2: Nanomemory Product Developers and Producers
- Exhibit E-3: Nanomemory Device Projections by Application ($ Millions)
- Exhibit E-4: Nanomemory Revenue Projections by Technology ($ Millions)
- Exhibit E-5: Nanomemory Penetration of Total Addressable Market (Percent)
- Exhibit 2-1: Nanomemory Technologies: Advantages, Disadvantages and Timeframes
- Exhibit 3-1: Differing Benefits of Nanomemory Solutions by Application Area
- Exhibit 4-1: Addressable Markets for Memory Products
- Exhibit 4-2: MRAM Markets: 2006-2013 ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-3: FRAM: 2006-2013 ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-4: Holographic Memory Markets: 2006-2013 ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-5: Ovonic Memory Markets: 2006-2013 ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-6: Molecular Memory Markets: 2006-2013 ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-7: Carbon Nanotube Memory Markets: 2006-2013 ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-8: MEMS Memory Markets: 2006-2013 ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-9: Polymer Memory Markets: 2006-2013 ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-10:Nanocrystalline Memory Markets: 2006-2013 ($ Millions)