Avalanche Technology

Avalanche Technology announced that has achieved the phase-one milestone of its magnetic cell scaling project, as it aims to be able to produce higher-density space-grade MRAM. This cell size reduction, in concert with additional planned geometry shrink, will enable the increase in memory density by 16X.

Avalanche has successfully established high density MTJ array manufacturing in a high volume production environment at 22 nm process node, achieving an MTJ critical dimension (CD) of 40 nm with a pitch of 100nm and below. Avalanche says that through rigorous optimization of MTJ hard mask and etch processes, the dense array delivers low bit error rates, enabling a minimum cell size of 0.01 μm² and high yield, gigabit class monolithic chip production, with demonstrated scalability to 12 nm process nodes.

pMTJ STT-MRAM developer Avalanche Technology announced that Aitech has chosen the company's space-grade MRAM technology for its unmanned rovers and deep space autonomous exploration platforms.

These platforms, designed for harsh environments where system failure is not an option, are designed to offer unparalleled radiation immunity, survivability, adaptability and the highest-reliability performance.

Avalanche Technology is introducing its next-generation VNX+ storage module, that is designed specifically for military and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) environments.

Avalanche says that its new solution delivers unparalleled radiation immunity, survivability in congested electromagnetic environments, and highest-reliability performance, based on the company's Space Grade MRAM.

On January 28, Avalanche Technology filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, against Everspin Technologies saying that Everspin's STT-MRAM technology infringes upon Avalanche's patents.

Avalanche says that there are 4 patents that Everspin infringes upon : U.S. Patents 9,318,179, 9,419,210, 11,678,586, and 10,490,737.  The Lawsuit requests customary remedies for patent infringement and the ITC Complaint requests that the U.S. ITC  Investigation commence an investigation.

pMTJ STT-MRAM developer Avalanche Technology announced that it has joined forces with NHanced Semiconductors to build a new rad-hard system-in-package FPGA integration designed to enable satellite and defense missions with dependable standby capability and high-confidence operational performance.

US-based NHanced Semiconductor, an advanced packaging foundry specializing in leading-edge BEoL semiconductor technologies, selected Avalanche MRAM as its partner, saying that Avalanche's memory architecture is radiation-immune, with error detection and correction built directly into the memory die. This allows radiation-induced errors to be handled seamlessly without system resets or data loss, reducing the complexity of integration and ensuring the boot memory operates reliably in harsh space environments.

pMTJ STT-MRAM developer Avalanche Technology announced a new partnership with Trusted Semiconductor Solutions (TSS) to provide valued DDR3/4 non-volatile memory products hardened to strategic levels for the aerospace & defense community. 

Building on prior collaborations between Avalanche and TSS, this new product family will address the critical need for radiation resilient, high reliability execution memory with instant-on capability for Strategic radiation environments. Leveraging Avalanche's broadly adopted modular Gen 3 MRAM product architecture TSS will add specialized survivability features uniquely required for this application and provide the storefront for this tailored solution.

pMTJ STT-MRAM developer Avalanche Technology launched a new enhanced discrete product family called "Space Grade-E", targeting the aerospace & defense community. The new Space Grade-E MRAM is based on Avalancehe's Gen 3 high density, high reliability MRAM technology, and it allows pin compatible scalability to MEO, GEO, and beyond.

The Space Grade-E family is now sampling, and is offered in both Parallel and Dual QSPI interface types. Compared to the company's previous generation space-grade MRAM, this new generation includes a boost in radiation tolerance specs and burn in hours for improved reliability. The new memory is maintains pin-compatible migration from Avalanche's previous generation space-grade MRAM. 

pMTJ STT-MRAM developer Avalanche Technology launched two new densities of its 3rd generation space-grade parallel asynchronous x32-interface high-reliability P-SRAM (Persistent SRAM) memory devices, based on its latest STT-MRAM tech, in 2Gb and 8Gb.

In June 2023 Avalanche announced that it is providing its products for satellite power applications developed by Advanced Space Power Equipment. Earlier that year Avalanche announced that its Gen-3 Space Grade Dual QSPI solution is now available in pre-production.

pMTJ STT-MRAM developer Avalanche Technology announced that it is providing its Space Grade Persistent SRAM (P-SRAM) STT-MRAM products for satellite-based storage systems developed by RAiTEK. 

RAiTEK has designed in a 16Mb device from Avalanche's Gen 2 Space Grade family to monitor data stream status, and a 1Gb Gen 3 Space Grade to support large configuration images for the onboard FPGA used in the drives, as part of their growing portfolio of data storage and processing solutions for the space industry.