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Weebit Nano receives from SkyWater Technology the first silicon wafers it manufactured with embedded Weebit ReRAM
Major milestone toward commercialization of Weebit ReRAM at SkyWater lays groundwork for customers to confidently design innovative and highly differentiated
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[{"type":"text","content":"Major milestone toward commercialization of Weebit ReRAM at SkyWater lays groundwork for customers to confidently design innovative and highly differentiated SoCs\nHOD HASHARON, Israel and BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Nov. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Weebit Nano Limited (ASX:WBT), a leading developer of next-generation memory technologies for the global semiconductor industry, and SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), the trusted technology realization partner, announce the first silicon wafers integrating Weebit’s embedded Resistive Random-Access Memory (ReRAM) module have been delivered to Weebit from SkyWater’s U.S. production fab. This is the first time silicon wafers of Weebit ReRAM have been received from a production fab, a major milestone toward commercialization of the technology at SkyWater. Manufacturing of Weebit ReRAM is now proven with standard tools and a mature process flow, making it easy for customers to adopt this innovative non-volatile memory (NVM) for development of their system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The silicon 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. SkyWater’s 130 nm process has been used reliably for billions of devices made for automotive, industrial and consumer applications. The automotive-grade, extended temperature, mixed-signal CMOS platform is well suited for IoT and edge computing as it enables a combination of both digital and analog circuit performance with embedded NVM for a wide range of SoC architectures. Coby Hanoch, CEO of Weebit Nano, said: “This is the first time we’ve received ReRAM wafers from a production fab – a huge milestone towards commercialization that has been achieved on-time through our close partnership with SkyWater. This increases the confidence of potential customers in our IP, pushing forward companies interested in engaging with us, and we’re seeing discussions with potential customers ramping up as we get closer to production. The demo chips produced by SkyWater integrating Weebit’s ReRAM module are enabling these companies to see the true advantages our technology can provide.” Sk...