Weebit Nano Ltd. · ASX:WBT
Weebit Nano — Shareholder Meeting (November 2018)
18 slides from Weebit Nano's shareholder meeting presentation, Nov 28, 2018
Slide 1: Weebit Nano Ltd 2018 Annual General Meeting
For personal use only Weebit Nano Ltd 2018 Annual General Meeting 28 November 2018
Slide 2: Key Highlights
For personal use only KEY HIGHLIGHTS • 2018 has been a very productive year for Weebit • Company de-risked through continued technology development • Computing world is undergoing a huge revolution, including memory • We are well positioned to capitalise on this revolution • WBT transitioning from e
Slide 3: CY2018 Summary
For personal use only CY2018 SUMMARY • Capital raise and SPP > $4.5M • Achieved working 1Mb array at 40nm, continuing technology improvement • Initiated partnership/collaboration discussions with many partners in different domains - Produced samples to enable partnerships • Brought 2 very experience
Slide 4: New Directors
For personal use only NEW DIRECTORS DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Chairman and major shareholder PhD. in Applied Physics, focus on SiOx memories, of Electro Optics Systems (EOS) under the guidance of Dov Frohman – Chairman of Audio Pixels (AKP) the inventor of non-volatile memories CEO of Tower Semico
Slide 5: Weebit ReRAM Technology
For personal use only WEEBIT RERAM TECHNOLOGY Next generation memory technology 1Mb prototype array achieved on 40nm development vehicle Findings show that our working cells will fit on much smaller geometries (smaller than 28nm) Faster and more efficient than flash memory Silicon oxide, the most co
Slide 6: Expectations Met
For personal use only EXPECTATIONS MET NOV 2018 Every committed Working on productisation technology milestone met JUN 2018 40nm 1Mbit Array FEB 2018 40nm 4Kbit Array NOV 2017 40nm working cells OCT 2017 300nm 4Kbit Array SEPT 2016 Development kicked off at Leti 6
Slide 7: The Era of Image Recognition
For personal use only SPEECH RECOGNITION PREDICTIVE TRANSLATION AUTONOMOUS ANALYTICS CARS RECOGNITION THE ERA OF IMAGE RECOGNITION PERSONAL ASSISTANCE INTELLIGENT MACHINES Becoming part of our everyday lives 7 7
Slide 8: Computing World Is Changing!
For personal use only SPEECH RECOGNITION PREDICTIVE TRANSLATION AUTONOMOUS ANALYTICS CARS RECOGNITION THE IMAGE RECOGNITION PERSONAL ASSISTANCE COMPUTING WORLD IS CHANGING! 8 7
Slide 9: And So Is the Memory World
For personal use only Focus is extending from storage to memory AND SO IS THE MEMORY AI is becoming a dominant WORLD technology, used everywhere • Pushing the envelop on memory speed and size WEEBIT: FOCUSED ON The separation between processing SMART INTEGRATION OF and memory is blurring MEMORY 9
Slide 10: Classic Integration: Memory into Compute
CLASSIC INTEGRATION: For personal use only MEMORY INTO COMPUTE • Memory moving more MEMORY and more into Compute - Embedded memory blocks COMPUTE MEMORY • AI requires fast and larger memory arrays MEMORY 10 10
Slide 11: Evolving Integration: In-Memory Compute
EVOLVING INTEGRATION: For personal use only IN-MEMORY COMPUTE • Computation is moving into the memory MEMORY COMPUTE • Processing units are placed embedded in the COMPUTE MEMORY memory, performing AI MEMORY COMPUTE specific operations ReRAM will play a big role in this architecture 11 11
Slide 12: Steps Towards Commercialisation
For personal use only STEPS TOWARDS COMMERCIALISATION Mid Q1 Q4 Q4 > 2021 2018 2019 2019 2020 40nm 4Kb Array 40nm 1Mb Array Process 28nm/300mm Production Fab IP revenues demonstrated Demonstrated Optimisation Integration Qualification Done Done Baseline State of the art Technology improvement to emb
Slide 13: Moving to Manufacturing
For personal use only MOVING TO MANUFACTURING • WBT used 40nm on 200mm wafers as a vehicle for development - Cheaper - Faster • Now moving to 28nm on 300mm wafers as a vehicle for productisation - Standard in the production fabs • Analysis shows we can potentially integrate cells developed on 28nm v
Slide 14: Leti Cooperation
For personal use only LETI COOPERATION Next stage agreement being finalised Initiates the move to 28nm / 300mm wafers which is needed for manufacturing Focuses on productisation 14
Slide 15: Building an Ecosystem: Partnerships
For personal use only Develop tools and models needed to integrate our ReRAM in a design Multiple cooperation talks taking place PARTNERSHIPS We are responding to inputs from these potential partners BUILDING AN We want to build the partnership on a strong ECOSYSTEM foundation 15
Slide 16: Research Program
For personal use only RESEARCH PROGRAM Universities & research institutes approaching Weebit to cooperate on research in advanced topics including • Neuromorphic Computing • In-Memory Compute Weebit is engaging with them by • Supplying samples of its ReRAM chips • Cooperating in the research First a
Slide 17: Further Down the Road: Neuromorphic Computation
For personal use only FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD: NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTATION ReRAM may bring new capabilities in Artificial Intelligence • ReRAM mimics the biological computation at the synaptic level • Physical similarities lead to functional similarities • Combines memory and processing units using synap
Slide 18: Summary
For personal use only SUMMARY • CY2018 was a productive year for Weebit • Company de-risked through continued technology development • Computing world is undergoing a huge revolution, including memory • We are well positioned to capitalise on this revolution • WBT transitioning from early developmen