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Reminiscence producer Macronix Worldwide Co. Ltd has acquired the Finest Reminiscence Product of the Yr award at EE Awards Asia 2022. That is the second consecutive 12 months that Macronix’s reminiscence gadgets have been acknowledged at Asia’s main awards program honoring the very best firms, options, and improvements within the semiconductor trade. Macronix acquired the award for its ultra-low energy (ULP) 1.2V serial NOR flash reminiscence. 

Organized by AspenCore—the writer of EE Instances, EE Instances Asia, EE Instances India, and EDN Asia — EE Awards Asia celebrates the innovation, creativity, and contributions of Asia’s engineering neighborhood which have made a distinction in the way in which we work, reside, and talk, and play over the previous 12 months. This 12 months, EE Awards Asia attracted greater than 400 purposes from 137 firms around the globe, competing for 22 awards. Aside from its back-to-back Finest Reminiscence Product awards, Macronix this 12 months additionally acquired a Taiwan Enterprise Award. 

Extremely-low-power reminiscence machine 

Energy consumption continues to be a serious concern all through the semiconductor trade, as chips symbolize an ever-increasing portion of merchandise addressing fast-growing and quickly evolving markets corresponding to automotive electronics, networking, knowledge facilities, synthetic intelligence, wearable gadgets, and the Web of Issues (IoT). 

Greater-power flash reminiscence contributes to a programs’ larger general system demand for vitality. This provides up over time to be vitality that might have been conserved via lower-power flash reminiscence, or higher but, via ULP options such because the MX25S, in response to Martin Lin, Director, Phase Advertising Division/Advertising Middle at Macronix. 

“Throughout the semiconductor trade, which is anticipating a 23 % compounded annual development charge for ULP microcontrollers, chip makers are transferring steadily towards extra power-efficient options,” Lin mentioned. “ In the event you take a look at medical purposes like electrocardiograms and glucose screens, for instance, they use gadgets that each have to be minimal in dimension and are closely reliant on maximizing battery life — important to making sure sufferers’ well being and wellbeing. So, the smaller the reminiscence dimension and the decrease the facility consumption, the longer the gadgets’ batteries will final, thus requiring less-frequent replacements.” 

The Macronix MX25S collection is a household of ULP serial NOR flash reminiscence gadgets with energy scores of between 1.14V and 1.6V, which considerably lengthen the battery lifetime of merchandise and programs whose purposes require low voltage operation and present consumption. 

What makes the MX25S distinctive is that it was designed to ship optimum energy administration and efficiency to power-constrained purposes — all with out sacrificing pace and important options. It has a mode-selection characteristic that permits programs utilizing it to change between ULP and high-performance modes dynamically, relying on wants, to optimize system operation.  

“The MX25S stands out additionally as a result of it represents the trade’s first household of 120MHz 1.2V NOR flash recollections to succeed in mass manufacturing, making Macronix the only high-volume supply of such ULP flash reminiscence,” mentioned Lin. 

Such are the options that garnered Macronix’s reminiscence product probably the most votes throughout Asia’s electronics engineering neighborhood and making it the recipient as soon as once more of the Finest Reminiscence Product Award at EE Awards Asia. 

“For greater than a half-century, EE Instances, its regional editions, and its sister publications have been among the many most-respected know-how information sources for the worldwide engineering neighborhood,” Lin acknowledged. “Successful this award from so prestigious a publishing group is a testomony each to our valued prospects around the globe who’ve put their religion in Macronix and to the imaginative and prescient and dedication of our staff dedicated to bringing market-defining non-volatile reminiscence to these prospects.” 

Future developments 

“At Macronix, we’re consistently enhancing our flash-memory know-how, and 2023 might be no exception,” Lin mentioned. 

He added that other than making gadgets extra environment friendly, as with the MX25S household, Macronix is growing a flash reminiscence that may enhance system efficiency, notably FortiX, which builds processing energy immediately into flash reminiscence to attenuate the necessity for knowledge to journey to and from a CPU, thus decreasing processing time and vitality calls for.