As we close out 2011 and prepare for next year, we decided to look back at the most popular blog posts. We covered a lot of exciting topics this year, including applying Spansion NOR flash to various industry segments, discussing the future trends in flash memory, reporting about the exciting Spansion news and exploring deep technical insights into the systems design using embedded memory.
And our most popular post? Our June 28th blog post on “Femtocells: The Next Billion Dollar Market.” Below is the list of the Top 10 blog posts in order of popularity:
1 – Femtocells: The Next Billion Dollar Market
Apparently, our readers are interested in either potentially large growth markets or simply how they can get a better mobile phone signal in their home. Our blog on Femtocells certainly piqued their interest covering the potential market growth, why it is important to the telecommunications industry and its impact on embedded systems design.
In this blog our CEO, John Kispert, outlines Spansion’s plans on how to successfully manage through the semiconductor industry’s cyclicality during the current macroeconomic challenges. He outlines the company’s commitment to innovation, perseverance and teamwork to deliver successful solutions for our customers.
3 – The Future of NOR Flash Memory
It is not clear if it was “Samson,” the 66-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton – one of the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex specimens – or Cliff Zitlaw’s presentation on how NOR Flash’s current trajectories and operational characteristics will enable usage in future applications that made this the third most popular post, but one can only hope it was the latter.
4 – Spansion’s Fab-Lite Manufacturing Strategy Gains More Weight
This post discussed the increased commitment to our Fab-Lite manufacturing strategy with our expanded relationship with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China’s largest and most advanced semiconductor foundry. We extended our current foundry arrangement to expand the 65nm capacity and include the manufacture of Spansion’s 45nm NOR Flash memory.
5 – Spansion Serial NOR Flash Memory Performance Demo on Freescale i.MX28 Platform
Sometimes you just want to get techy. In this video blog entry, Bob France, the VP of Customer Engineering, shows the performance gains that can be achieved with our Serial NOR Flash Memory in quad I/O mode over standard single I/O operation using a Freescale i.MX28 evaluation platform.
6 – Surveillance Cameras and NOR Flash
This post coming from Spansion Japan looked at the trends towards the proliferation of surveillance cameras and their unique requirements on embedded memory. In short, it isn’t enough to simply capture the video; you need to better and quickly understand what is it.
7 – There’s More Than SSDs at Flash Memory Summit
In this real-time report from Flash Memory Summit in August, Stephan Rosner talked about an interesting panel conversation on the use of Flash Memory in embedded applications. With participants from NXP, Xlinx and Spansion, there was an excellent discussion from all aspects of the design process.
8 – Apple’s iCloud Pushes Demand for LTE Deployments
This blog post is talking about the potential impact of Apple’s June announcement of iCloud on telecommunications infrastructures. The blog explores LTE deployments and the challenges of meeting the requirements for rich-media content streaming.
9 – Migrating to Spansion GL-S NOR Flash Memory
Another video blog, but this one is by Doug Kearns, Manager, Spansion Field Application Engineering. His mini-tour de force reviews the new Spansion GL-S family of 3V NOR Flash memory and highlights key facts when using this industry-leading NOR Flash memory. Definitely worth a look for its insights.
10 – Creating Electronics Innovation By Licensing IP and Technology
In this June blog, John Kispert announces our agreement with Samsung to successfully resolve all outstanding patent litigation. It outlines how the agreement validated the strength of our IP portfolio and demonstrates our employees’ determination and smart innovation – two important values of Spansion.
So there you have it…the most popular topics in 2011. We had a lot of fun this year with Memory Matters and hope that you had fun, too. Please enjoy your holiday season and let’s look forward to an exciting 2012.