Sept. 1, 2004 – Nanochip Inc. (News, Web) has licensed semiconductor memory technology developed by Ovonyx Inc. in MEMS-based data storage systems.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Ovonyx’s memory process has been commercially developed in rewritable CD and DVD optical memory disks. Fremont, Calif.-based Nanochip said in a written release that Ovonyx’s materials support ultra-high-density memory chips that Nanochip is developing for such devices as mobile phones, PDAs, digital cameras and laptops.
Nanochip said its MEMS-based chips, as opposed to the electronic chips in traditional flash memory cards, enable faster data manipulation and higher storage densities.