Research companies

EverSpin was spinned-off Freescale in June 2008. Freescale gave all its MRAM IP, and the company raised 20M$ from several venture companies.

EverSpin will operate in a portion of Freescale's Chandler (Arizona, US) semiconductor foundry and take on about 50 existing company employees who were associated with the MRAM technology.

EverSpin's web page

Spin Transfer Technologies (STT) is developing novel magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) devices for non-volatile computer memory. This class of memory devices utilizes a quantum mechanical effect known as spin transfer to manipulate magnetic orientations over small distances. STT has been established by NYU and Allied Minds.

STT's web site 

Honeywell International is a diversified technology and manufacturing company, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials.

Honeywell has an advanced MRAM research program, and in July 2005 they posted a 1-Mbit Rad-Hard MRAM module data sheet. Honeywell is an NVE's licensee.

Honeywell's web site

Northern Lights Semiconductor Corporation is located in Plymouth, Minnesota, and it was founded and incorporated in 2003. NLSC designs, manufactures and markets high-density EMRAM (ElectroMagnetoresistive RAM) ICs for both embedded and non-embedded applications.
NLSC has developed a family of parallel and serial standalone EMRAM devices with storage densities ranging from 4Kb to 1Mb. NLSC also offers embedded EMRAM (eEMRAM) up to 1Mb for ASIC and SoC, and it is also developing 16Mb EMRAM. It serves customers in a variety of industries and markets including computer, computer peripheral, communication, consumer and industrial markets.

Northern light's web page

Micromem has focused the last 5 years on the development of an MRAM memory. The memory will be suitable for various applications including Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. The company's first market objective will be the RFID sector.
Micromem trades in the NASDAQ (ticker is MMTIF.OB).

Micromem's web page 

IBM is one of the largest technology companies in the world, involved in Hardware, software, services and research. IBM has produced more research breakthroughs than any other company in the IT industry. IBM is one of the MRAM pioneers, and are working on MRAM together with Infineon.

IBM trades in the NYSE (ticker is IBM).

IBM's web page 

Grandis, established in 2002 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, develops Spin Torque Transfer based RAM technology (STT-RAMTM). STT-RAMTM is a "second generation" magnetic random access memory (MRAM) which solves the writing current scaling problem for conventional MRAM.
In November 2002, Grandis announced a collaboration with Renesas, and in April 2008 they extended this collaboration. They have also announced a licensing deal with Hynix.

Grandis' web site

Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semi) is a leading global semiconductor company focused on providing embedded processing and connectivity products to large, high-growth markets. Freescale is one of the pioneers of the MRAM industry.

In July 2006, Freescale became the first company to offer commercial MRAM modules (4 Mbit,25$). IP issues with NVE are still open.
Freescale trades in the NASDAQ (ticker is FSL).

In June 2008, Freescale created EverSpin - a spinoff to handle all MRAM activities.  

Freescale's web page

Crocus is a new startup, headquartered in Grenoble (France) with operations in the Paris area and in Silicon Valley.
Crocus mission is to become the leading supplier of products and technologies to the MRAM market.
The MRAM technology that is the foundation on which Crocus is built was developed in the Grenoble-based Spintec research center and Crocus has formal joint development programs with Spintec and other leading European laboratories.
In June 2006, Crocus has raised 17M$

Crocus' web page

NVE develops and sells devices using "spintronics," a nanotechnology which utilizes electron spin rather than electron charge to acquire, store and transmit information. NVE is a licensor of spintronic MRAM, and lists Motorola, Cypress and Agilent as licensees. NVE also sells sensors and couplers.
NVE trades in the NASDAQ (ticker is NVEC).

NVE's web page