MRAM production

NVE says that they have completed several custom anti-temper MRAM integrated circuit designs. NVE designs conventional semiconductor ICs which they fabricate at outside foundries. Then they add the Spintronic structures, in this case spin-dependent tunnel junction memory cells, in their own factory.

NVE now reveals that they have received a number of the foundry wafers they have designed and they are in the process of adding MRAM to the wafers. The prototypes look promising so far although a fair amount of development remains before production.

Everspin has a new prodcut - a dual-supply MRAM designed to directly interface with next-generation logic products requiring low voltage I/Os. RAID systems using advanced logic controllers operating with 1.8 volt I/Os will be able to seamlessly interface with this MRAM.

Everspin is introducing a new family of MRAM products, with a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus. The new family is called MR24H and includes 256Kb, 512Kb and 1Mb products. These Everspin MRAM devices require no write delay, run at clock speeds as fast as 40 MHz and have unlimited endurance with more than 20 years data retention. 

Micromem says that their Memory (MRAM) product is now complete through the Global-Communication-Semiconductor and BAE Systems foundries. The MRAM is fully packaged in arrays, and it's being tested and evaluated against standard and routine memory tests.

Emerson Network Power says they will use Everspin's 4Mb MRAM in three of their newest high-performance single-board computers (the MVME7100 and MVME4100 VMEbus boards and CPC16200 CompactPCI board).

EverSpin MR2A16 Chips

Emerson's boards are used in industrial, medical, military, aerospace and advanced telecom platforms. 

Crocus announced today that Israeli Tower fab will manufacture their next-gen MRAM chips. Tower has an exclusive agreement to make the MRAM chips at their 200mm Fab2 facility. Tower has also invested 1.25$ at Crocus.

Crocus aims to start making the chips towards the end of 2009.

Everspin has shipped more than 100K 4Mbit MRAM chips to Siemens’ Industry Automation division. Siemens uses the MRAM in an industrial touch-screen application. They have reported zero field failures over the last two years.

EverSpin MR2A16 Chips

Siemens uses Everspin MRAM to maintain software-programmable logic controller (SoftPLC) process data for its Simatic Multipanel MP 277 and MP 377 multi-panel human machine interface (HMI) products without battery backup.

Siemens started using the MRAM back in March 2008.

There's a new STT-RAM startup called Avalanche Technology (from California, US) that plans to commercialize 65nm standalone STT-RAM within 2 years.

Via EETimes

“We have an expanding global base of customers in storage, industrial automation, communication, consumer, gaming and avionics markets,” said Saied Tehrani, chief operating officer for Everspin Technologies.

Jean-Pierre Braun, the CEO of Crocus technologies, is visiting Israel these days, and I had the good chance of meeting him. Crocus' technology is based on work done by the French Spintec research center. In fact they get an exclusive access to Spintec MRAM related research and patents for the next 15 years.