Weebit - 2024 and beyond, page-1737

Blocks and Files putting in a good word for Weebit Nano in an article discussing FeRAM. Great to see.

https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/08/16/ferroelectric-ram-looking-rusty-and-stuck/

Ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) is a fast, non-volatile memory that’s stuck in the same trap as Optane – and currently going nowhere.There have been – and are – several fast, non-volatile memory technologies that could potentially fill a gap in the memory-storage hierarchy between NAND and NOR on the one hand and DRAM on the other. Phase-change memory-based Optane has been the most recent candidate and spectacularly collapsed as a mass-market technology because it could never get its production volume up to a level where the chips were affordable. Weebit Nano’s ReRAM is another candidate, but first we’ll take a look at Ferroelectric memory technology.
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Weebit Nano provides a good example of how to bring a replacement memory technology to market. It has worked with Skywater, a CMOS semiconductor foundry, to make its ReRAM module available to Skywater customers. Weebit and Skywater qualified Weebit’s ReRAM for volume manufacturing with fully functional demonstration chips produced. Weebit, which raised $40 million in April last year is, according to CEO Coby Hannoch, “in advanced discussions with many leading fabs and integrated device manufacturers. Funds raised, combined with our strong balance sheet of approximately $31 million cash at the end of December 2022, ensure we are well placed to transfer and qualify our ReRAM technology in Tier-1 fabs and foundries to capitalize on the growing global need for better performing memory technology.”
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But unless a large foundry operator like Micron adopts ferroelectric memory, then it’s down to a Weebit-style startup striding down the long road to develop and prove its product technology through partnerships with foundries like Skywater.