Panasonic Corporation (which until October 2008 was known as Matsushita Electric Industrial) provides a wide range of products, from audiovisual and information equipment to home appliances and components.
Panasonic is one of the leaders in RRAM development. The company launched RRAM evaluation kits in 2012. In 2013, Panasonic launched 8-bit MCUs with 64Kb ReRAM (the MN101L series).
In 2015 Panasonic, in collaboration with imec, developed and fabricated 40nm RRAM chips. In 2016 Fujitsu announced its entry into the ReRAM market, in collaboration with Panasonic.
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Panasonic and UMC to co-develop and produce RRAM chips by 2019
Panasonic announced a new partnership with Taiwan-based United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) to co-develop and produce RRAM devices. The two companies aim to use a 40nm process to produce RRAM chips that consume one-seventh the power of today's NAND flash memory.
Panasonic will be in charge of designing the chips, and the two companies will co-develop the microfabrication technologies. Actual production will be done at UMC. The two companies plan to start shipping samples in 2018 and mass produce RRAM chips by 2019. The first RRAM devices will be embedded in microcontrollers.
Fujitsu launches its first RRAM chip, the 4Mb MB85AS4MT
Fujitsu Semiconductor launched its first RRAM chip, the 4Mb MB85AS4MT. Fujitsu co-developed this Chip with Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions, and the company says that this is the world's largest density mass-produced RRAM product.
The MB85AS4MT offers an SPI-interface and operates with a wide range of power supply voltage, from 1.65V to 3.6V. It features an extremely small average current in read operations of 0.2mA at a maximum operating frequency of 5MHz. Fujitsu says it is aimed for battery operated wearable devices and medical devices such as hearing aids and IoT devices such as meters and sensors.
Panasonic demonstrate battery-less NFC electronic shelf labels with its ReRAM MCUs
Panasonic published a new video, demonstrating its new electronic shelf labels (ESL) that are batteryless and uses NFC and an E Ink display. The ESLs are powered by Panasonic's 8-bit MN101L MCUs that use 64kb RRAM memory.
Panasonic started producing the MN101L MCUs back in 2013.
