Spansion claims new technology reduces power consumption. Spansion, which was spun off from AMD and Fujitsu in 1993 to embed flash memory in cell phones, automobiles and consumer electronics, is focusing on the IT market for the first time with a product called EcoRAM. While flash memory is starting to replace some hard disks for general storage needs, Spansion executives claim that their innovation is to use flash instead of DRAM on the... ...