Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ETA RAM


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The result was delete --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:56, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

ETA RAM

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ETA-RAM fails the WP:Notability policy. The article claims that ETA-RAM is a novel random-access memory, and makes several vague and dubious claims concerning its novelty, none of which cite sources considered to be reliable per WP:RS. The references and external links provided by the article are identical and broken. A Google web search for ETA-RAM site:etasemi.com does not even return any results for this technology. The Eta Semiconductor site lists on high-frequency power converters and radio-frequency receivers as the only products and technologies of this company. It could be possible that ETA RAM was discontinued (which casts doubt on its claimed merits), but the Wayback Machine does not have any archived pages from etasemi.com because the site is excluded by a robots.txt file. A Google Web search for ETA-RAM -Wikipedia returns no relevant (that is, results that are not copies of this article) results in the first 100 results. A Google Books and Scholar search for ETA-RAM "ETA Semiconductor" returns no exact (or relevant) results for former, and no results for the latter. A Google Scholar search for author:"Eta Semiconductor returns 16 US patents. Of these 16 patents, 8 pertain to power converters, 4 to capacitors, and 4 to transistors. A quick read of their abstracts, and a search of these results, does not suggest that these patents describe technologies whose application is computer memory, nor have these patents been cited by any relevant item that would suggest that the described technologies were in any way notable. Search for the ETA-RAM keyword and Eta Semiconductor in author affiliations at the IEEE Xplore Digital Library returned no results. A search of EE Times site for ETA-RAM and Eta Semiconductor returned no results. If ETA-RAM was such a novel and groundbreaking technology, one would expect that there be results on Google Web, Books, and Scholar. ETA-RAM would be presented at IEEE conferences or in IEEE journals. The EE Times would have covered ETA-RAM and Eta Semiconductor. AZ1199 (talk) 05:27, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is at best a poorly researched article, at worst a hoax (perhaps why the author blanked it in 2014). A few books by one publisher like this appear which appear with this term, but they seem to have lifted text from Wikipedia's Computer memory article. Brianhe (talk) 06:08, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Lacks third party sources to back its claim of novelty and fails WP:SIGCOV.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 11:11, 31 January 2016 (UTC)


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