New chip to filter spam and shrink flash memory

Bangalore: Lyric Semiconductor has designed a new chip that claims to shrink flash memory and offer new methods for spam filtering and other processes. The technology being used by the chip is called 'probability processing'. Determining the probability of bits being zero or one help in solving certain problems.

Lyric has designed its LEC chips specifically with new gates, architecture and language dedicated to processing probabilities. The LEC components are said to perform the same basic function as current error-correction chips, necessary for flash memory, but with a form-factor 30 times smaller than current alternatives.

The added advantage, apart from the small form, is that these chips also provide a substantial increase in power efficiency.

The new technology claims to decode real-world flash data with error rates as high as 1 bit per 100. This is a positive growth for next-gen flash, as increasing storage density brings higher error rates.

The mass production of these chips would start in the next 12 months, Lyric informed.