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Crocus Technologies is an early-stage developer of
MRAM
technology for dense, non-volatile,
high-speed, scalable RAM memories. Its MRAM technology was conceived in the
Grenoble-based Spintec laboratory, a world leading R&D center in Spintronics
affiliated with two leading French labs, CEA and CNRS. Crocus Technologies MRAM
technology is covered by a comprehensive patent portfolio. The company licenses
its technology for standalone and embedded chip applications in a wide variety
of telecommunication, networking, storage, computing and handheld applications.
Crocus is backed by VC firms AGF-PE, CDC Innovation, NanoDimension, Sofinnova
Partners, Sofinnova Ventures, and Ventech and has operations in Grenoble,
France, and Sunnyvale, California.
- editor's comments:- Crocus's whitepaper -
the
Emergence of Practical MRAM (pdf) - gives the best explanation I've seen of
why, despite so many companies entering the MRAM market, so few useful products
have actually come out. It describes flaws in the basic technology which lead to
data corruption (similar in concept to read-disturb errors in flash - although
completely different physically). It's necessary to fix these problems to enable
relaible data storage.
The paper describes the proposed solution and
also compares MRAM's data density to other semiconductor memory technologies,
including SRAM, DRAM and flash.
The company has received over 26
million euros in funding.
In June 2009 - semiconductor foundry
Tower Semiconductor, announced it had
taken an equity position (value approx $1.25 million) in Crocus, and announced
it was porting Crocus's MRAM to its 200mm wafer fab.
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