Computer hardware

Presentation (obstetrics)

Engineering

Non-volatile memory

Phase change

Computer data storage

Embedded system

Phase-change memory

Computer science

Flash memory

Radiology

Cognitive science

Computer architecture

Psychology

Emerging technologies

Data science

Artificial intelligence

Medicine

Engineering physics

Applied Sciences

This paper presents an overview of emerging memory technologies. It begins with the presentation of stand-alone and embedded memory technology evolution, since the appearance of Flash memory in the 1980s. Then, the progress of emerging memory technologies (based on filamentary, phase change, magnetic, and ferroelectric mechanisms) is presented with a review of the major demonstrations in the literature. The potential of these technologies for storage applications addressing various markets and products is discussed. Finally, we discuss how the rise of artificial intelligence and bio-inspired circuits offers an opportunity for emerging memory technology and shifts the application from pure data storage to storage and computing tasks, and also enlarges the range of required specifications at the device level due to the exponential number of new systems and architectures.

Advances in Emerging Memory Technologies: From Data Storage to Artificial Intelligence