MRAM-Info

In the holidays and end-of-the-year spirit, here are the top 10 stories posted on MRAM-Info in 2011, ranked by popularity (i.e. how many people read the story):

1. Toshiba report STT-MRAM advances, expects gigabit chips within 3-4 years (Jul 6)
2. Updates from Spingate, working on a 4Gbit pS-MRAM chip design (Mar 31)
3. BMW uses new automotive-temperate Everspin MRAM in their S-1000RR super bike (Feb 28)
4. Crocus develops their 2nd-gen MRAM tech, to produce 90nm MRAM chips in Russia? (Apr 28)
5. Everspin: we shipped over 1.5 million MRAM chips, will sell over 4.5 million in 2011 (Mar 8)
6. NVE reports on MRAM research and plans (Jan 21)
7. Rusnano $125 million MRAM investment with Crocus confirmed (May 17)
8. Toshiba and Hynix to co-develop and produce MRAM products (Jul 13)
9. Everspin sees rapid growth in MRAM sales, expands distribution network (May 26)
10. Researchers develop faster MRAM technology, seek to commercialize it (Mar 9)

Here's for an awesome 2012. May you all enjoy the holidays!

Global research firm VDC is presently conducting a worldwide MRAM user satisfaction research study for embedded hardware and embedded software development professionals, product managers and directors, and technology procurement specialists. VDC’s brief 16-question online survey is designed to capture confidential feedback from both early adopters of MRAM, as well as organizations that have chosen not to adopt MRAM at this time.

“VDC sees the global market for MRAM in 2011 at a critical inflection point for potential growth,” said VDC analyst Richard Dean. “With a number of well-funded start-up firms already shipping commercially to customers or expecting to begin shipping this year, MRAM adoption appears to be gaining considerable momentum. However, challenges remain, particularly as MRAM suppliers attempt to define their value propositions against competing incumbent memory technology.”

All survey participants will receive an executive summary of VDC’s forthcoming research report “Embedded Processors 2010 – 2014: Global Market Demand Analysis. Click here to take the survey!

MRAM-Info was upgraded today (if anyone is interested, we upgraded to Drupal 6.x from 5.8). Most of the changes are infrastructure related so you won't notice much, but hopefully the site should be faster now, more stable and more secure.
If you do find any bugs, glitches or you have any comments, please let us know!

If you have an Amazon Kindle e-reader, then you'd be happy to know that you can now read MRAM-Info directly on your Kindle. The service costs $0.99 a month.

Amazon's Kindle is a wireless e-book reader that has a free 3G connection in the US. It's got a 6" E Ink display, 2Gb of memory, and it's available now for 259$. The Kindle DX is bigger (with a 9.7" display) and costs 489$.

We're happy to announce a new addition to the Metalgrass site network: Graphene-Info. Graphene is a sheet, one-atom-thick of carbon atom, in a honeycomb crystal lattice. If you use many layers of graphene, stacked one on top of the other, you’ll get Graphite. Graphene has many uses - Spintronics, sensors, ICs (for example a transparent backplane for OLEDs), ultra-capacitors and more.

We hope you'll enjoy the new site...

We have updated our site's design... with a much cleaner look. Hopefully this will make reading and finding information easier.

I'd love to hear your comments on the new look!

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.