Young Micron India team designs & builds DRAM chip

What are the chances of an inexperienced team of engineers successfully developing the first `designed in India’ DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip, that too in the first attempt and during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic?

Next to impossible, most would say. But that’s exactly what young engineers based out of US semiconductor giant Micron’s R&D centre in Hyderabad achieved. And Micron says this chip will be the primary choice for automotive applications globally through 2030.

A team of 100 engineers, with an average age of 28-30 years, delivered the chip – a 12GB LPDDR4 (low power double data rate) DRAM – that can operate at a bandwidth of 4266 Mbps with 1.1v input supply.