The Time for SPMT is Now!

The last couple of days have been awesome for the SPMT consortium. We held an event in conjunction with IEEE at the Marvell headquarters in Santa Clara California. We were given the opportunity to present the technology and hold a panel discussion taking question from about 100 engineers from around the Bay Area. The panel consisted of Jim Elliott, VP of marketing and product planning from Samsung, Camillo Martino, CEO of Silicon Image, Dr. Sehat Sutardja, CEO, President of Marvell, Arun Kamat, VP of marketing for Hynix, Dr. John Heinlein, VP of Marketing and Physical IP Division, and myself. After remarks from Dr. Sutardja and me, we went into the panel discussion with a lot of interesting and probing questions from the audience. The panel was followed by some great food and good conversation all around. Great event and great exposure for Serial Port Memory Technology.

Yesterday, the SPMT Consortium participated in the Memcon technical conference focused on the future of memory technology. It was an intensive one day program packed with a lot of great presentations and information. Alan Ruberg, SPMT Architect, presented the SPMT architecture that was very well received by a packed conference room. SPMT also had an exhibit there where the team was mobbed by engineers eager to learn more about SPMT. Later in the day I participated in a panel to discuss the future of memory interfaces where I predicted that a serial (SPMT) interface will become the next major general purpose standard for DRAM. Both the mobile and consumer electronics industry have recognized that the current parallel interface architecture is hitting the wall and serial is inevitable.

The momentum for SPMT has significantly picked up in the last couple of months as other proposed memory interface alternatives have fallen to the wayside because they simply cannot match the combination of low power, high bandwidth, low latency, and low pin count that SPMT offers. To quote the Dr. Sutardja, "The time for SPMT is now!"