Companies

Advanced MicroSensors Corporation (AMS) is a semiconductor foundry, which develops and fabricates MEMS and spintronics solutions. AMS was founded in 1999 and is based in Massachusetts, USA.

AMS's magnetic sensor product line uses magnetoresistive (AMR, GMR) materials and magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). According to the company, their sensors exhibit excellent performance, and they outperform traditional Hall Effect devices with regard to size, power, sensitivity, accuracy and resolution.

In June 2011 Plures Technologies (which holds 95% in AMS) announced a merger with publicly traded CMSF Corporation.

Atomistix is a provider of software solutions for development of nanotechnology. Since its incorporation in Copenhagen (2003), the company has been working in close collaboration with the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institute of Copenhagen University.

In January 2009 QuantumWise bought all assets of Atomistix, after it went bankrupt.

Crocus Technology was a spintronics company headquartered in Grenoble (France), with operations in the Paris area and in Silicon Valley.

Crocus set out to become a leading supplier of products and technologies to the MRAM market. The MRAM technology on which Crocus was built was developed in the Grenoble-based Spintec research center, and the company ran formal joint development programs with Spintec and other leading European laboratories. In later years Crocus shifted its focus to TMR magnetic sensors.

In June 2006, Crocus raised $17 million. In October 2023 Crocus Technology was acquired by Allegro MicroSystems for $420 million.

EverSpin was spun off from Freescale in June 2008, to handle Freescale's MRAM development, and is now an independent company. Everspin was the world's first MRAM producer and remains one of the leading ones, offering both MRAM and STT-MRAM chips.

In 2016 Everspin became a public company following a $40 million IPO.

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Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semi) was a global semiconductor company focused on embedded processing and connectivity products. Freescale was one of the pioneers of the MRAM industry.

In July 2006, Freescale became the first company to offer commercial MRAM modules (4 Mbit, $25). In June 2008 it spun off its MRAM business as Everspin, and in 2015 Freescale was acquired by NXP.

Grandis, established in 2002 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, developed Spin Torque Transfer based RAM technology (STT-MRAM). STT-RAM is a "second generation" magnetic random access memory (MRAM) which solves the writing current scaling problem for conventional MRAM.

In November 2002, Grandis announced a collaboration with Renesas, and in April 2008 they extended this collaboration. The company also announced a licensing deal with Hynix.

Grandis was acquired by Samsung in 2011.

Established in 1910, IBM is one of the largest technology companies, operating as an information technology (IT) company worldwide. Together with Stanford University, IBM is doing Spintronics research at SpinAps.

IBM trades in the NYSE (ticker is IBM). You can follow the latest Spintronics news from IBM here.

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Established in 1968, Intel is the world's leading chip maker. Intel is researching Spintronics, and is supporting several universities in their Spintronics research (In 2006, Intel gave $12M in research funds and equipment to several Californian universities).

Intel trades in the Nasdaq (ticker is INTC).

Micro Magnetics aims to advance commercial applications of spintronics and provides innovative solutions, products, and services in the areas of magnetic sensing and semiconductor metrology.

Its magnetic current imaging system, the Circuit Scan 1000, is a high-resolution magnetic microscope which provides current density images of operating integrated circuits (ICs). This product family has found utility for failure analysis, fault isolation, and yield enhancement of ICs.

The SpinTJ Series magnetic field sensors are based on next-generation magnetic tunnel junction technology (a.k.a. MTJ or TMR) that offer excellent magnetic sensing capabilities. The SpinTJ sensors feature linear and bipolar response, superior field sensitivity, low noise, low power consumption, and small size. These sensors can also withstand extreme environmental conditions. The SpinTJ Series magnetic sensors have been used in a number of cutting-edge industrial and research applications, including semiconductor failure analysis, compassing and navigation applications, biomagnetic sensing, basic and applied research in magnetism and currency/media validation.

Nellow is a start-up developing and exploiting a technology resulting from 15 years of fundamental and applied research by two world-leading laboratories on microelectronics solutions: the  Spintec laboratory (CEA Grenoble, Univ. Grenoble Alpes & CNRS), and the Laboratoire Albert Fert (CNRS, Thales and Univ. Paris Saclay).

Nellow was founded in late 2024 in Grenoble, France. It is developing a component called Feso, which combines ferroelectricity and spintronics (spinorbitronics). It aims to enable chips whose energy consumption is diminished by 1000. 

Nellow is also aiming to replace transistors by 2035 and hopes to create a demonstrator in the future.