Thin Film Electronics announces printed rewritable memory

Thinfilm is a leading provider of roll-to-roll printed, rewritable non-volatile memory products. That was a mouthful so your probably wondering what exactly does that mean. The company is headquartered in Sweden but spun out of the infamous PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and have invented a technology that marries transistors with memory. This means it is a low cost way to print memory like you have in your computer. This printed memory can be read, written, and small amounts of data can be proccessed. Below is a picture of the memory printed on a thin film. The black dots are the memory and the copper colored traces are conductive material connecting them. As you can see in the picture since the memory is printed on a thin film it is highly flexible. Flexible Thin Film Today Thinfilm announced they will be selling development kits for the technology at Inventables. The developers’ kit provides designers with the tools they need to experiment with the printed memory sti