My colleague Anthony Le and I have both been blogging about the transformation of the car in recent months for Memory Matters. Truly, the car is turning into one of the most advanced consumer electronics devices on the market. The dashboard is morphing from gauges and dials into a digital display, the center console’s nobs and buttons is replaced with a touch screen interface and cameras and sensors are scattered throughout the exterior to help actively protect your safety. Today it seems like there are more processors and memory in a car then you’ll find at your local Best Buy.
The car is definitely changing and so are the requirements from the world’s automakers. In order to enable this shift, automakers are ratcheting up the performance requirements of its electronic systems. For instance, the call for instant-on performance is getting louder. Automaker specifications for next generation digital instrument clusters and infotainment systems are cutting boot time requirements in half, increasing the need for higher performance memory and processing.
Spansion announced samples of its new Spansion® GL family in mid February and we met our commitment to move into production in the second quarter with 1 Gb and 512 Mb versions of the Spansion GL-S NOR Flash memory. With industry-leading read performance, Spansion GL-S NOR Flash is delivering the fast boot times, real-time feedback and high reliability automakers require for a safe driving experience. Spansion GL-S solutions are actively being qualified with leading automotive electronics customers in North America, Europe and Japan.
Of course, the automotive industry is just one example. The benefits of the family extend beyond automotive and are bringing innovation to consumer electronics, gaming, and telnet applications as well thanks to a 45% read performance advantage and the fastest programming speed over competing NOR Flash products.
A datasheet on this NOR Flash family is also available to download from our website.
You can learn more about the family in this SlideShare presentation on Spansion GL-S NOR Flash.
Good to hear. Kely: Could you touch upon certain key automakers that have shown interest?