Company:Crossbar, Inc.

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Crossbar, Inc.
TypePrivately held
IndustrySemiconductors: memory
Founded2010
FounderGeorge Minassian, Hagop Nazarian, Wei Lu
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
ProductsSemiconductor Memory Technology
Number of employees
20+

Crossbar is a company based in Santa Clara, California.[1] Crossbar develops a class of non-volatile resistive random-access memory (RRAM) technology.[2]

History

Crossbar was founded in 2010, by George Minassian, Hagop Nazarian, and Wei Lu.[1][3] As part of the University of Michigan Tech Transfer program, in 2010, Crossbar licensed resistive RAM (RRAM) patents from the University of Michigan.[4] Crossbar filed patents relating to the development, commercialization and manufacturing of RRAM technology.[5]

In August 2013, Crossbar emerged from stealth mode and announced the development of a memory array at a commercial semiconductor device fabrication facility. It was said to deliver faster write performance; lower power consumption and more endurance at half the die size, compared to NAND flash memory. Since it is CMOS-compatible, it can be fabricated without special equipment or materials.[6]

Crossbar received $25 million in funding from Artiman Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Northern Light Venture Capital and the Michigan Investment in New Technology Startups (MINTS) program in 2012.[7] Another funding round of about $35 million was announced in September 2015, with investors from China and Hong Kong.[8]

Crossbar primarily markets to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system on a chip (SOC) developers of consumer, enterprise, mobile, industrial and Internet of things products.[9]

Products

The company in 2013 announced its goal was a terabyte of storage on a single RRAM integrated circuit, compatible with standard CMOS semiconductor manufacturing processes,[10] with a prototype showcased the same year having the theoretical ability to achieve this on a 200mm2 chip.[11][12] According to Crossbar, the chip uses a crosspoint array to stack multiple silver-ion-based memory layers on top of each other, with the prototype having three such layers.[13][14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "From D: Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. November 20, 2012. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1555455/000155545512000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml. 
  2. ↑ Clark, Don. "Crossbar Enters Race to Change Memory Chips". blogs.wsj.com The Wall Street Journal. https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/05/crossbar-enters-race-to-change-memory-chips/. Retrieved 5 August 2013. 
  3. ↑ Shah, Agam. "Startup Crossbar pits RRAM against DRAM and flash storage". CIO.com. http://www.cio.com.au/article/522811/startup_crossbar_pits_rram_against_dram_flash_storage/. Retrieved 5 August 2013. 
  4. ↑ Moore, Nicole. "Faster, more powerful mobile devices: U-M startup Crossbar could disrupt the memory market"]. ns.umich.edu. http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/21625-faster-more-powerful-mobile-devices-u-m-startup-crossbar-could-disrupt-the-memory-market. Retrieved 5 August 2013. 
  5. ↑ Cole, Bernard. "Startup wants to replace NAND and DRAM with silver RRAMs". embedded.com. http://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4419460/Startup-wants-to-replace-NAND-and-DRAM-with-silver-RRAMs. Retrieved 5 August 2013. 
  6. ↑ Harris, Robin. "Flash successor announced". ZDNet. https://www.zdnet.com/article/flash-successor-announced/. 
  7. ↑ Tom Simonite (August 14, 2013). "Denser, Faster Memory Challenges Both DRAM and Flash". MIT Technology Review. http://m.technologyreview.com/news/517996/denser-faster-memory-challenges-both-dram-and-flash/. 
  8. ↑ Chris Mellor (September 18, 2015). "D-round VC ReRAM cash comes crashing down on Crossbar: Close, so close to getting its ReRAM afloat before Intel and Micron barge in". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/crossbar_gets_renewed_reram_cash/. 
  9. ↑ Takahasi, Dean. "Crossbar says it will kill the $60B flash memory market with Resistive RAM, which stores a terabyte on a chip". venturebeat.com. https://venturebeat.com/2013/08/05/crossbar-says-it-will-explode-the-60b-flash-memory-market-with-resistive-ram-which-stores-a-terabyte-on-a-chip/. Retrieved 5 August 2013. 
  10. ↑ Poeter, Damion. "Startup's 'RRAM' Tech Promises 1TB Memory for Mobile Devices". PCMagazine.com. https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2422734,00.asp. Retrieved 5 August 2013. 
  11. ↑ "Crossbar RRAM Aims for 1TB". eetimes.com. 2014-07-01. https://www.eetimes.com/crossbar-rram-aims-for-1tb/. 
  12. ↑ "Crossbar Emerges From Stealth, Packing 1TB Into a Single Chip update from August 2013". itprotoday.com. 2013-08-06. https://www.itprotoday.com/data-storage/crossbar-emerges-from-stealth-packing-1tb-into-a-single-chip-e9467d72-078f-4249-b8b1-9375919eecbf. 
  13. ↑ "Crossbar unveils resistive RAM with simple, three-layer structure". semiconductor-digest.com. https://sst.semiconductor-digest.com/2013/09/crossbar-unveils-resistive-ram-with-simple-three-layer-structure-2/. 
  14. ↑ "ReRAM Startup Bets on Silver". eetime.com. 2013-08-05. https://www.eetimes.com/reram-startup-bets-on-silver/. 



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