verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message everspin technologies type public company industry semiconductors founded 2008 headquarters chandler arizona usa website www.everspin.com everspin technologies is a public semiconductor company that develops and manufactures magnetic ram or magnetoresistive random access memory mram including stand alone and embedded mram products . the company was formed in june 2008 as a spin out of freescale semiconductor and it went public with an ipo in october 2016 . contents 1 history 2 technology 3 markets 3.1 data center and storage 3.2 energy and infrastructure 3.3 automotive and transportation 3.4 investors 4 references 5 external links history edit this section needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message 1984 gmr effect discovered 1 1996 spin torque transfer is proposed 2 3 1996 motorola begins mram research 1998 first motorola mtj 1999 motorola develops 256kb mram test chip 4 2002 toggle patent granted to motorola 5 2004 motorola separates semiconductor business into freescale semiconductor 6 2006 industry first mram 4mb product commercially available 7 2008 freescale semiconductor spins out mram business as everspin technologies 8 2008 everspin announces bga packages product family from 256kb to 4mb 9 2009 everspin releases spi mram product family 10 2009 everspin ships first embedded mram samples 2010 everspin sells first million mrams 2010 everspin qualifies industry first embedded mram 2010 everspin releases 16mb density 11 12 2011 everspin ships its four millionth stand alone mram 13 2011 everspin ships its two millionth embedded mram 2012 everspin produces 64mb st mram on a 90 nm process 14 2016 everspin announces it was shipping samples of the industry s first 256mb st mram to customers citation needed 2016 everspin goes public with an ipo on october 7 . 15 technology edit mram uses the magnetism of electron spin to provide fast and enduring non volatile memory . mram stores information in magnetic material that is integrated with silicon circuitry to deliver the speed of ram with the non volatility of flash . citation needed everspin is considered to be the world s first volume mram supplier 16 and established an mram intellectual property portfolio of more than 600 active patents and applications many of which are fundamental and essential for mram technologies including mtj based products . citation needed headquartered in chandler arizona everspin owns and operates a manufacturing line for its magnetic back end of line wafer processing using standard cmos wafers from foundries . citation needed everspin s current mram products are based on 180 nm and 130 nm process technology nodes and industry standard packages . citation needed markets edit data center and storage edit mram is used in storage server and networking applications such as raid nas san and das applications as well as rack and blade servers and routers . 17 energy and infrastructure edit mram products have been designed into energy and infrastructure applications such as smart grid smart meter solar and wind applications industrial computing and automation and casino gaming . 18 19 20 automotive and transportation edit everspin supplies mram products for automotive and transportation applications including power train brakes safety data logging multimedia navigation camera and in flight computers . 21 22 23 24 investors edit investors include new venture partners lux capital sigma partners draper fisher jurvetson and epic ventures . citation needed references edit gmr a giant leap for ibm research ibm . l berger october 1996 . emission of spin waves by a magnetic multilayer traversed by a current . physical review b. 54 13 9353 9358 . doi 10.1103 physrevb .54.9353 . j.c. slonczewski october 1996 . current driven excitation of magnetic multilayers . journal of magnetism and magnetic materials . 159 1 2 l1 l7 . doi 10.1016 0304 8853 96 00062 5 . n.p. vasil eva october 2003 magnetic random access memory devices automation and remote control 64 9 1369 1385 states6633498 united states 6633498 engel ; bradley n. janesky ; jason allen rizzo ; nicholas d. magnetoresistive random access memory with reduced switching field freescale completes spin off from motorola . ee times asia . december 7 2004 . david lammers october 7 2006 . mram debut cues memory transition . ee times . michael j. de la merced june 9 2008 . chip maker to announce it will spin off memory unit . the new york times . mark lapedus november 13 2008 . freescale s mram spin off rolls new devices . ee times . r colin johnson 16 november 2009 . mram chips go serial in smart meters . ee times . david manners april 20 2010 . everspin launches 16mbit mram volume in july . electronics weekly . ron wilson april 19 2010 . everspin mram reaches 16 mbits looks toward embedded use in socs . edn . stacey higginbotham january 18 2012 . everspin takes mram to dell lsi and beyond . gigaom . charlie demerjian november 16 2012 . everspin makes st mram a reality lsi ais 2012 non volatile memory with ddr3 speeds . semiaccurate.com . chris mellor october 10 2016 . everspin s friday ipo goes pop moderate amount of champagne all round . theregister.co.uk . retrieved october 10 2010 . nicolescu gabriela ; ian o conner ; christian piguet 2012 . design technology for heterogeneous embedded systems . springer . p. 342 . josh wolfe january 18 2012 . dell and lsi flip for everspin mram in data storage . forbes . r colin johnson november 16 2009 . mram chips go serial in smart meters . ee times . everspin partners with emerson network power on new computer boards . business journal . july 17 2009 . john walko march 31 2008 . siemens to use mram in touch screen hmi . ee times . terry costlow may 13 2011 . everspin targets transportation with nonvolatile mram . sae international . airbus uses everspin s mrams . eetimes.com . september 8 2009 . retrieved october 10 2016 . janine love may 3 2011 . everspin expands mram to automotive applications . ee times . jim harrison april 3 2011 . mram meets aec q100 automotive specs . hearst electronic products . external links edit everspin official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title everspin technologies & oldid 743706683 categories semiconductor companieshidden categories articles needing additional references from october 2016all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2016articles with unsourced statements from february 2014 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 10 october 2016 at 20 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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