Bio :

Simone Bertolazzi, PhD, is Principal Analyst (Memory) at Yole Group. As member of the Yole Group’s Memory team, he contributes on a day-to-day basis to the analysis of markets and technologies, their related materials, device architectures and fabrication processes. Previously, Simone carried out experimental research in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, focusing on emerging semiconducting materials and their opto-electronic device applications. He (co-) authored more than 20 papers in high-impact scientific journals and was awarded the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. Simone obtained a PhD in physics in 2015 from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and a double M. A. Sc. degree from Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) and Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

Abstract :

In this presentation, I will provide an overview of emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) markets and technologies, discussing their technical maturity and their recent progress towards mass adoption in stand-alone and embedded applications. After reviewing the different NVM solutions currently available at leading semiconductor foundries/IDMs – among which MRAM, ReRAM, and PCM – I will discuss the challenges and opportunities for their adoption as embedded NVM in microcontrollers and edge-AI devices.