is about crossbar semiconductor company . for other uses see crossbar . type privately held industry semiconductors memory founded santa clara ca 2010 founder george minassian hagop nazarian prof. wei lu headquarters santa clara ca usa products semiconductor memory technology number of employees 20 website www.crossbar inc.com crossbar is a startup company founded in 2010 and based in california usa . crossbar develops a class of non volatile resistive random access memory rram technology . 1 crossbar rram memory allows the ability to deliver up to a terabyte tb of storage on a single chip the size of a postage stamp with very low power very high performance and compatibility with standard cmos semiconductor manufacturing processes . 2 contents 1 history 2 markets 3 references 4 external links 5 see also history edit crossbar was founded in 2010 by george minassian ph.d. hagop nazarian and prof. wei lu . 3 as part of the university of michigan tech transfer program in 2010 crossbar licensed the rram technology and is the exclusive holder of resistive ram rram patents from the university of michigan . 4 crossbar has filed 100 unique patents with 30 already issued 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 working crossbar memory array at a commercial fab . crossbar s rram technology is said to be able to deliver 20 faster write performance ; 20 lower power consumption and 10 the endurance at half the die size compared to best in class nand flash memory . since it is cmos compatible it can be easily integrated into existing fabs and processes without any special equipment or materials . 6 crossbar has received a total of 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 . 7 markets edit crossbar primarily sells to original equipment manufacturers oems and system on a chip soc developers of consumer enterprise mobile industrial and connected device products . 8 references edit clark don . crossbar enters race to change memory chips . blogs.wsj.com the wall street journal . retrieved 5 august 2013 . poeter damion . startup s rram tech promises 1tb memory for mobile devices . pcmagazine.com . retrieved 5 august 2013 . shah agam . startup crossbar pits rram against dram and flash storage . cio.com . retrieved 5 august 2013 . moore nicole . faster more powerful mobile devices u m startup crossbar could disrupt the memory market . ns.umich.edu . retrieved 5 august 2013 . cole bernard . startup wants to replace nand and dram with silver rrams . embedded.com . retrieved 5 august 2013 . harris robin . flash successor announced . zdnet.com . retrieved 5 august 2013 . simonite tom 14 august 2013 . denser faster memory challenges both dram and flash . m.technologyreview.com . takahasi dean . crossbar says it will kill the 60b flash memory market with resistive ram which stores a terabyte on a chip . venturebeat.com . retrieved 5 august 2013 . external links edit official website see also edit 3d xpoint retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title crossbar computer hardware manufacturer & oldid 742355800 categories computer memory companiessemiconductor companies of the united statestechnology companies based in the san francisco bay areacomputer companies established in 2010manufacturing companies established in 20102010 establishments in californiaamerican companies established in 2010companies based in santa clara california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 06 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view