SoftBank subsidiary working with Intel to develop radical new ZAM memory is now receiving Japanese gov't subsidies — new memory designed as a lower-power HBM for AI workloads

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SAIMEMORY, a SoftBank Corp subsidiary in partnership with chip giant Intel, announced that Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) had selected its next-generation ZAM memory technology development project for government subsidies that may cover a huge part of the project's development costs.

ZAM (Z-Angle Memory) is a potential next-generation alternative to existing AI memory technology, which is designed to be a power-efficient HBM (high-bandwidth memory). It was selected as part of NEDO’s Post-5G Infrastructure Enhancement R&D Project.