Jeff Brown
Principal Analyst
Portelligent

Jeff Brown, Portelligent-A TechInsights Company

Using Portelligent's Product Profile Database, built from over 325 cell phone teardowns over the last four years, the evolution of memory in cell phones between 2003 and 2007 will be presented. Trends in memory die quantity, silicon area, capacity, and density, by type of memory, will be used to paint a future picture of where memory is going in the ever-changing cell phone industry. The impact of these trends on the overall system bill-of-materials and on how memory has enabled new functionality in cell phones will also be demonstrated.