Weebit Nano Expands Partnership With CEA-Leti

Weebit Nano Limited expanded its ongoing strategic development partnership with CEA-Leti, a French research institute, further enhancing its ReRAM technologies and supporting its commercialisation efforts.

The agreement expands the IP co-operation between the 2 companies, leveraging CEA-Leti’s investment in memory research for over 10 years and covering the IP jointly developed by both firms. As part of the agreement, Weebit will incorporate additional IP licensed from CEA-Leti into its ReRAM offerings, further improving its technical parameters such as endurance, retention and robustness. This will position Weebit’s technology at the forefront of the NVM industry and broaden its commercialisation opportunities in industries such as automotive which require high-temperature performance.

Coby Hanoch, CEO, Weebit Nano, said: “Our collaboration with CEA-Leti has been very successful to-date, enabling us to advance development of our industry-leading ReRAM to the point that it is highly competitive and ready for transfer to a production fab. CEA-Leti has been developing advanced memory technologies such as ReRAM cells and OTS back-end selectors for more than a decade and has a deep understanding in this domain. We are now further leveraging this know-how, resulting in even more robust and resilient memory arrays for the benefit of our production customers and partners. Our new agreement with CEA-Leti underpins continued R&D – which is essential within the ever-evolving semiconductor industry – while supporting key commercialisation steps.“

Olivier Faynot, head of silicon components division, CEA-Leti, said: “Development of reliable and cost-effective resistive memory technology is an important element of CEA-Leti’s advanced non-volatile memory initiatives, and as such, Weebit is a key strategic development partner for us. The ReRAM technology we started developed and continue developing with Weebit is highly efficient and extremely robust, and is a great fit for various embedded applications, discrete memory chips, and ultimately as a solution for neuromorphic computing.  By expanding our relationship with Weebit, we are laying the groundwork for exciting new memory solutions for the industry.“

The integration of CEA-Leti’s additional IP will enhance Weebit’s ReRAM technology. Tests show an order of magnitude improvement in array-level endurance, and a 2x increase in data retention at the same conditions compared to previous results. In addition, the technology will make it possible for Weebit to address new high-volume markets such as automotive and smart cards by enabling high-temperature reliability up to 175oC and high-temperature compatibility for wafer level packaging.