Ann: Appendix 4E & Annual Report, page-175

Dr Guido Arnout would not be stupid to make a false claim "on record" in a interview that would be viewed by IMEC.

But here is a first hand quote directly from IMEC.

IMEC Executive Vice President of Semiconductor Technology & Systems, Dr An Steegen, said: “Based onour research on various non-volatile memory technologies, we consider ReRAM technology as aninteresting path to satisfying the requirements of Storage Class Memory. We are happy to support 4DSwith demonstrating their technology and its transferability on our state-of-the-art equipment. Thiscollaboration is an illustration of the current dynamics in the market where new memory technologies seektheir way to the market and have a need for hardware validation.”

IMEC and it's Core partner Western Digital would not be wasting valuable resources and time in a multibillion $$$ Fab on a tech for the hell of it.