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Rambus and Gigadrive Form Joint Venture to Commercialize Resistive RAM

posted by martyb on Friday May 18 2018, @09:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the resistance-is...-futile? dept.

takyon writes:

Rambus, GigaDevice form ReRAM joint venture

Reliance Memory has been formed in Beijing, China to commercialize Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) technology. The company is a joint venture between intellectual property developer Rambus Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), fabless chip company GigaDevice Semiconductor (Beijing) Inc. and multiple venture capital companies. VC companies include THG Ventures, West Summit Capital, Walden International and Zhisland Capital.

The value of the investment was not disclosed but the company is expected to make ReRAM for use in embedded and IoT applications. GigaDevice is a fabless chip company that uses foundries to manufacture non-volatile memory and 32bit microcontrollers.

The Rambus ReRAM technology, previously known as CMOx has a heritage that goes back to Rambus's acquisition of Unity Semiconductor Corp. for $35 million in February 2012. Unity has been working on the technology for a decade, but failed to bring the technology to market. Unity had claimed to have developed a passive rewritable cross-point memory array based on conductive metal oxide. This would provide similarities to filament-based metal migration technologies such as those developed by Adesto Technologies Corp. and Crossbar Inc.

Resistive random-access memory. Yes, that Rambus.

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  • (Score: 1) by redneckmother on Friday May 18 2018, @02:38PM (2 children)

    by redneckmother (3597) on Friday May 18 2018, @02:38PM (#681177)

    Welcome to '60s technology, magnetic core memory (IBM S/360)!

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    Mas cerveza por favor.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Friday May 18 2018, @04:52PM (1 child)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Friday May 18 2018, @04:52PM (#681253) Journal

    This is memristors again. Maybe someday we'll have working, practical memristor devices, alongside quantum computers, self-driving cars, flying cars, networked electronic voting, stable and anonymous cryptocurrencies, a colony on Mars, the James Webb telescope, and Duke Nukem Forever. Well, we did get the game, finally, and hopefully James Webb will be operational within 2 years, but the rest....