Recent RRAM News - Page 2

UK-based RRAM developer Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies (Intrinsic) announced a collaboration with sureCore, to accelerate the time to market for its RRAM technology. Intrinsic says that its technology will assist SoC developers looking for embedded memory solutions in 22 nm or smaller nodes. 

sureCore will add Intrinsic's MRAM technology into its SureFIT Custom Design Service. Intrinsic says that both microcontrollers and evolving AI architectures using Intrinsic RRAM will deliver higher performance at lower power envelopes than those realized using off-chip flash.

Australia-based RRAM developer 4DS Memory  announced that it has achieved “significantly better than expected” analysis results from testing of its latest memory system offering known as the Fourth Platform Lot wafer. 4DS says that the notable improvements to the 4Ds Platform Lot technology has been supported by the company’s ongoing collaboration with world-leading R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies developer, imec.

Mr Yen said the company has also proven that 4DS Interface Switching ReRAM technology is transferable, while demonstrating a fully functional megabit array with 4DS Interface Switching ReRAM memory cells. Notably, the tests also highlighted consistent read and write speeds equivalent to DRAM and proven endurance in excess of 2 billion cycles at DRAM read and write speed on a megabit array.

UK-based Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies (Intrinsic) has raised $8.4 million USD to further develop and commercialize its RRAM memory technology. The funding was led by Octopus Ventures, and was supported by existing investors and the UK government.

Intrinsic was spun-off from University College London (UCL) in 2017. The company's main technology is a silicon-oxide based RRAM memory, which is said to be fully air stable and inherently CMOS compatible. The company says its memory devices will be cheaper and easier to produce compared to competitive technologies.

GlobalFoundries announced that it acquired RRAM technology from Renesas Electronics, for use in chips for home and industrial IoT devices and smart mobile devices.

The RRAM technology originated at Dialog Semiconductor, which Renesas acquired. In 2020, Dialog licensed its CBRAM technology to GlobalFoundries. Dialog's RRAM technology, in turn, was developed by Adesto Technologies which was acquired by Dialog in 2020.

Israel-based RRAM developer Weebit Nano announced that it has taped-out (released to manufacturing) demonstration chips integrating its embedded RRAM module in an advanced 22nm FD-SOI (fully depleted silicon on insulator) process technology.

The company says that this is its first tape-out in 22 nm, one of the industry’s most common process nodes, and a geometry where embedded flash is not viable. Weebit worked with its development partners CEA-Leti and CEA-List to successfully scale its ReRAM technology down to 22nm.

Hprobe, developer of testing equipment for magnetic devices, announced a new addition to its product line, the RF Pulse Module, the world's first commercially available testing system to both collect statistics of error rate of the memory unit cell and take a deep look into switching dynamics of resistive memories.

Hprobe's IBEX system

Hprobe's new module supports production of Resistive RAM, an also various MRAM memories. The module can be used as a stand-alone system, and it is also compatible for use with the company's IBEX product line.

Infineon says that its next generation Aurix TC4x microcontrollers will adopt RRAM memory, instead of the traditional embedded flash. The company expects the first samples of such chips to ship to customers before the end of 2023.

Infineo's next-gen Aurix chips will be produced at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), using its 28nm CMOS process. The company says that RRAM memory will be more energy efficient at 28nm compared to the currently-used embedded flash memories. The RRAM memory will also enable higher disturb immunity and it allows for bit-wise writing without need for erase, which allows for superior performance over embedded flash. The cycling endurance and data retention are comparable with flash.

Israel-based RRAM developer Weebit Nano announced that it has received the silicon wafers from SkyWater Technology, with embedded Weebit RRAM. The company says this is an important step as its technology is now proven with standard tools and a mature process flow, which makes it easy for customers to dopt its technology.

The silicon SkyWater RRAM-enabled wafers will be sliced into chips, packaged, and then tested and qualified. The chips, which were manufactured in SkyWater’s 130nm CMOS process, will be used for customer demonstrations, testing and prototyping ahead of commercial orders and volume production, allowing customers to confidently start designing SoCs using these ReRAM modules.