PCM offers several advantages over flash memory technology, including greater reliability, Lam said. It does not use floating gates, which flash memory chips use to store information.

El Segundo’s PCM Inc., makers of the PC Mall and MacMall technology product catalogs, has acquired some assets from En Pointe Technologies Sales Inc., an information technology firm that ...

But PCM, like any new memory technology, needs to be scaled from the lab to high-volume manufacturing, which will be a challenge, said Joseph Unsworth, research director at analyst firm Gartner.

IBM's prototype multilevel cell phase-change memory (MLC PCM) chip IBM The engineering advancements help overcome significant barriers in introducing a technology that holds the potential to ...