July 2, 2008—Spansion, global provider of Flash memory solutions, recently launched a new class of memory, called Spansion EcoRAM, designed to solve the growing energy consumption crisis in Internet data centers by replacing power-hungry DRAM in data center servers.
When combined with Virident Systems’ newly announced GreenGateway technology, Spansion EcoRAM can help slash energy consumption by up to 75 percent in Internet data center servers, and offer four times the memory capacity of traditional DRAM-only servers for the same energy consumption, claims Spansion.
Spansion asserts that EcoRAM transcends the available memory alternatives, with significant potential benefits for data center solutions:
- Read performance to meet the requirements for fast random access
- 1/8 the energy consumption of DRAM
- 10x the reliability compared to DRAM
- Die densities two-to-four times greater than conventional floating gate NOR
- Write performance two-to-ten times greater than that of traditional NOR Flash memory
