AMD intros high-performance Flash memory device.

AMD (NYSE:AMD) has introduced the Am29PDL640G, a 64 Mbit page-mode Flash memory device with sophisticated security features, to frustrate would-be hackers and signal thieves with multiple security modes including 64-bit password protection. Designed for wireless applications such as mobile phones and other applications including television set-top boxes, the Flash memory device delivers a superior combination of high-performance, long battery life, and sophisticated security.

"This product provides a fortress on a circuit board, helping protect the integrity of the wireless telephone or television network," said Ian Williams, vice president of customer operations for AMD's Memory Group. "Customers can count on multiple layers of protection designed to prevent would-be signal thieves from fraudulently billing calls to other users' accounts or pirating television programming."

Unlike competing wireless Flash memory products, the Am29PDL640G device can improve network security and the user experience while also lengthening battery life.

"Mobile consumers--`connected' consumers--would rather not have to wait. High-throughput page-mode devices like the Am29PDL640G help minimize phone application load times," said Williams. "AMD's Simultaneous Read/Write architecture means the phone can still function while downloading applications, ringers, games, and pictures, so consumers can enjoy rich and responsive interfaces in demanding operating environments, such as 2.5G and 3G phones. Of course, high-performance isn't enough for battery-powered mobile devices. The Am29PDL640G device features a low-power design to help users to talk, e-mail, stay organized, and play longer. Essentially, we take less power from your battery and give more power to you."

For designers who need to quickly deliver rich user interfaces and improve their wireless network's security, AMD's Am29PDL640G is a 3.0-volt page-mode Flash memory device that offers 1.8 V and 3.0 V input and output voltage options, hardware-based simultaneous read/write, and low standby power.

AMD's technology is employed by one of the world's largest producers of Flash memory devices, Fujitsu AMD Semiconductor Ltd. (FASL). AMD Flash memory products encompass a broad spectrum of densities and features to support a wide range of markets. AMD Flash memory customers represent leaders in the automotive, networking, telecommunications, and handheld mobile terminal markets. AMD offers many Flash memory products, such as the innovative MirrorBit architecture; award-winning simultaneous read-write (SRW) product family; super low voltage 1.8V Flash memory devices; and burst- and page-mode devices. AMD developed the robust Known Good Die (KGD) program and the patented negative gate erase technology, and developed highly reliable Fine-pitch Ball Grid Array packaging.