Crossbar is a company based in
Santa Clara, California
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.
Crossbar develops a class of non-volatile
resistive random-access memory (RRAM) technology.
History
Crossbar was founded in 2010, by George Minassian, Hagop Nazarian, and Wei Lu.
As part of the
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...
Tech Transfer program, in 2010, Crossbar licensed resistive RAM (RRAM) patents from the University of Michigan. Crossbar filed patents relating to the development, commercialization and manufacturing of RRAM technology.
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
Flash memory is an Integrated circuit, electronic Non-volatile memory, non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. The two main types of flash memory, NOR flash and NAND flash, are named for t ...
. Since it is CMOS-compatible, it can be fabricated without special equipment or materials.
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.
Another funding round of about $35 million was announced in September 2015, with investors from China and Hong Kong.
Crossbar primarily markets to
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and
system on a chip
A system on a chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that combines most or all key components of a computer or Electronics, electronic system onto a single microchip. Typically, an SoC includes a central processing unit (CPU) with computer memory, ...
(SOC) developers of
consumer
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,
enterprise,
mobile,
industrial and
Internet of things products.
Products
The company in 2013 announced its goal was a
terabyte of storage on a single RRAM
integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...
, compatible with standard
CMOS semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator. Its conductivity can be modified by adding impurities (" doping") to its crystal structure. When two regions with different doping level ...
manufacturing processes, with a prototype showcased the same year having the theoretical ability to achieve this on a 200mm
2 chip. 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.
See also
*
3D XPoint
References
External links
* {{official website, http://www.crossbar-inc.com/
Computer companies of the United States
Computer hardware companies
Computer memory companies
Semiconductor companies of the United States
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Computer companies established in 2010
Electronics companies established in 2010
2010 establishments in California
American companies established in 2010
Companies based in Santa Clara, California