EverSpin was spun-off from Freescale in 2008 to handle its MRAM business. Since 2008 Everspin shipped more than 60 million MRAM Chips (discrete and embedded) into data centers, cloud storage, energy, industrial, automotive, consumer, and transportation markets.
Everspin currently produces MRAM and STT-MRAM chips ranging from 128K to 256Mbit, and will soon launch 1 Gbit STT-MRAM chips. Everspin offers Toggle-MRAM, STT-MRAM and pMTJ STT-MRAM chips.
In October 2016 Everspin became a public company following a successful $40 million IPO.
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Leading the Charge in MRAM: An Interview with Everspin's CEO
Everspin Technologies is at the forefront of the MRAM industry, with a product range that spans Toggle MRAM and STT-MRAM, embedded MRAM IP, more. The company's president and CEO, Sanjeev Aggarwal, was kind enough to answer a few questions we had about the company, it's recent announcements and its future roadmap.
Thank you for your time Sanjeev, we appreciate it. A few days ago, Everspin announced it had received a strategic $14.55 million 2.5-year DoD project to provide continued and stable manufacturing services. Can you share more info? How will that money be allocated, and how will you ensure stable support?
Everspin has partnered with the DoD on various projects to deploy our MRAM technology and fab MRAM products for Defense Industrial Base customers in Chandler, Arizona. The award money will be used to strength the US MRAM manufacturing supply chain. Everspin will look at its supply chain and mitigate any risks identified. This can include second-sourcing gases and chemicals as well as upgrading processes.
Efficient to utilize GlobalFroundries' 22 nm eMRAM technology in its upcoming Fabric chip
US-based Carnegie Mellon University spinoff Efficient has signed a strategic partnership with GlobalFoundries to launch its low-power Fabric chip on GlobalFoundries' 22FDX low power silicon on insulator process. Efficient will adopt embedded MRAM in its chip, and expects to launch it (first samples) by the summer of 2025.
Efficient is an early stage company that raised over $16 million to develop the power-efficient Fabric processor, targeting edge applications such as machine learning-enabled extreme-edge machine vision, continuous audio intelligence and versatile sensory and signals intelligence.
GlobalFoundries has been offering eMRAM 22nm process solutions since 2017, based on Everspin's pMTJ technology and IP.
Everspin awarded a $14.55 million project to provide continued, stable MRAM manufacturing for aerospace and defense applications
Everspin Technologies announced that it has received a strategic $14.55 million 2.5-years project from the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide continued and stable manufacturing services for aerospace and defense segments. Under the award, Everspin will provide a plan to mitigate risks to its MRAM manufacturing supply chain.
Everspin is producing its MRAM products at its manufacturing line in Chandler, Arizon. In March 2024, Everspin announced that it has applied for the CHIPS Incentives Program, asking for funding for an additional 200mm MRAM production line. It seems as if this current DoD award is not that project that was applied to in March. In 2022, Everspin asked for funding to build a new MRAM production line in Indiana.
Everspin signs a $9.25 million contract with Frontgrade for strategic radiation hardened MRAM technology
Everspin Technologies announced a new strategic contract with Frontgrade Technologies. Everspin will provide its PERSYST MRAM technology, logic design, and back-end-of-line manufacturing services, to advance the development and demonstration of a Strategic Radiation Hardened (SRH) high-reliability eMRAM macro for use in future products by Frontgrade.
This initiative supports both current and future Department of Defense (DoD) strategic and commercial space system requirements. It will be manufactured using Skywater RH90 CMOS in Bloomington, Minnesota and Everspin’s back-end-of-line MRAM process in Chandler, Arizona. The contarct has several phases over multiple years - with the first phase valued at $1.25 million, and all phases at $9.25 million. Upon successful performance of this phase, and at the discretion of the U.S. government, the contract allows for award of future optional phases.
Everspin reported its financial results for Q2 2024
Everspin Technologies reported its financial results for Q2 2022. Revenues were $10.6 million (down from $15.7 million in Q2 2023), and net loss was $0.2 million (down from a new profit of $5.4 million in Q2 2023). The company is cash flow positive, generated $1.7 million in the quarter, and ended it with $36.8 million in cash and equivalents.
During the quarter, the company experienced weakness in toggle MRAM sales, partly due to inventory consumption and partly due to unfavorable currency exchange. Looking ahead, Everspin sees positive signs of inventory consumption, and expects a modest ramp in toggle MRAM sales in the rest of 2024. Everspin said it has strong traction with its new PERSYST family of MRAM products, and expects to start delivering the first products to its customers towards the end of 2024 or early 2025.
Everspin and QuickLogic sign a strategic agreement to bring MRAM technology to radiation hardened FPGAs
In 2022, Everspin Technologies signed a contract to provide MRAM technology, design, and back end of line manufacturing services to QuickLogic Corporation for a project funded by the US Department of Defense.
Today Everspin announced a new strategic contract with QuickLogic. Everspin will provide its innovative AgILYST MRAM technology, logic design, and back end of line manufacturing services to advance the development and demonstration of a Strategic Radiation Hardened (SRH) high-reliability Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology.
IBM's next-gen FlashCore modules to feature Everspin's 1 Gbg STT-MRAM
Everspin announced that IBM has chosen the PERSYST EMD4E001G 1Gb STT-MRAM for use in their FlashCore Module 4.
Everspin says that its EMD4E001G high-performance persistent memory ensures critical data integrity even during power loss. With a DDR4 interface, it delivers 2.7 gigabytes/second of both read and write bandwidth, coupled with instant non-volatility.
Everspin reports its financial results for Q1 2024
Everspin Technologies announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2024. Revenues were $14.4 million (down slightly from Q1 2023) and a small loss of $0.2 million (compared to a net income of $0.8 million in Q1 2023).
Everspin reports continued weakness in Asia Pacific, and in the industrial, consumer and automotive markets. However, it is also expecting a ramp up in both design wins and shipments for both toggle MRAM and STT-MRAM in the second half of 2024. In the next quarter, however, it expects revenues to drop significantly to $10 million to $11 million.
Everspin rebrands its persistent memory product family as PERSYST
Everspin Technologies announced that its persistent memory product family is now organized under the new brand name PERSYST. Everspin says that this new initiative to simplify product identification beyond conventional alphanumeric identifiers will make it easier for companies select the right solutions. The company’s legacy toggle MRAM parallel and serial products, 1Gb ST-DDR4 and new EMxxLX xSPI Industrial STT-MRAM will reside under the PERSYST brand.
Everspin says that the PERSYST family of products represents the unique combination of RAM-like speed and latency with non-volatility. With virtually unlimited endurance, PERSYST provides the speed and persistence to capture critical data continuously. It's perfect for use in a variety of industries, such as, automation, robotics, networking, data storage, AI, healthcare, gaming and FPGA.
Tiempro Secure's Secure Element succesfully implemented in GlobalFroundries 22-nm process with MRAM memory
France-based Tiempro Secure announced that its TESIC RISC-V Secure Element was implemented in GlobalFoundries’ 22-nm platform with embedded MRAM, after a rigorous characterization process.
Tiempo Secure says it leveraged its long-standing know-how in Secure IP, to adapt its TESIC design to the 22FDX technology process node. The TESIC platform has a secure architecture based on a RISC-V CPU core, several memory types (including ROM, RAM, Cache, Crypto-RAM, and MRAM), random number generators, security sensors, and secure crypto-accelerators. This provides a pre-silicon certified IP solution on GF’s 22FDX to SoC manufacturers who require a high-end Secure Element.
