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Quantum Design International (QDI) is a global manufacturer and distributor of scientific and industrial instrumentation, best known as a leading commercial source for automated materials characterization systems that combine cryogenics, superconducting magnets and precision measurements. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company serves researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology and related fields through a worldwide network of subsidiaries and partners across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Quantum Design’s platforms have become reference standards for magnetic and physical property measurements and are widely cited in the scientific literature.

SpinEdge Ltd. is an Israeli company, founded in 2022. The Company’s team consists of experts in spintronics, AI, advanced nanomanufacturing and high-tech business.

SpinEdge is aiming to revolutionize AI inference and Edge computing performance using spintronic technology – nanoelectronics based on the electrons’ spin (an intrinsic quantum property), developing an analog Spintronic-based AI accelerator for inference acceleration. SpinEdge's accelerator achieves x10 improvement in TOPS (Tera operations per second), and at least x50 in TOPS/W energy efficiency against today’s most advanced GPUs and AI accelerators.

The technology is especially beneficial for edge devices, having restrictions on power consumption, but still requiring strong data processing capabilities (like smart cameras, drones, autonomous cars, biochips, etc).

The SpinEdge spintech analog AI accelerator will be sold as a chiplet and is meant to be integrated with any existing processor, GPU, or AI chip, offering the ability to upgrade and perform complex AI calculations and analysis at a fraction of the cost and the power, and at a much higher speed.

Founded in 2021 as a joint spinout from the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, Neuranics develops magnetic sensors integrated with semiconductor technology for health, fitness, and metaverse applications.

Neuranics’s patented technology uses scalable spintronics sensors powered by semiconductors to detect tiny magnetic signals from organs in the body – for example the heart and muscles of the arms, which the company says could transform the current shortcomings of health monitoring devices and human-machine interfaces.

Qnami is a Basel, Switzerland-based company that develops fundamental new technology using quantum mechanics. The control and measurement of the state of a single electron enables Qnami to measure what could not be measured before. The Company calls this 'quantum sensing'.

Founded in 2017, Qnami launched the Qnami ProteusQ™, the first commercial Scanning NV (Nitrogen Vacancy) Magnetometer, in 2019. This tool, which uses the company’s patented Quantilever™ diamond scanning probes, provides an innovative platform for the analysis of magnetic materials at the nanoscale.

In addition, the company intends to extend its patented quantum microscope technology into applications enabling the design and production of quantum computers and spintronics devices.

Germany-based SURFACE, established in 1989, designs and produces advanced laser deposition systems and delivers systems for spintronics research.

SURFACE offers everything from single chamber systems up to complex cluster tool systems, used for thin film deposition of 2D electron gas structures, memristive films and any other oxide electronic application. Systems from 10x10 mm substrate size up to 8" are available.

Finland-based Spindeco Technologies developed a proprietary technology (called SpinX) which is based on the polarization of conduction electrons, which reduces dissipation in conductors and appliances. The technology reduces energy consumption, improves the efficiency and lowers the operating temperature.

Spindeco targeted several markets for its SpinX materials, including lighting, batteries (especially EV batteries), energy generation and audio equipment. The company seems no longer to be in business.

Spintronics-Info is a web publication focused on Spintronics technologies. Spintronics-Info has been providing news and resources since 2006.

The site is regularly read by industry professionals, researchers, system designers and consumers interested in next generation spintronics technologies.

Rhomap was spun-off from Durham University in 2011 to develop manufacture-to-order scientific instrumentation for high precision magneto-transport measurement systems. Rhomap's instruments target new materials and next generation semiconductors, photovoltaics, spintronics and ferromagnetic systems.

Rhomap's web site seems to be empty so it's not clear whether the company is still active.

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.

QuantumWise was a provider of software solutions for the development of nanotechnology. QuantumWise bought the assets of Atomistix after it went bankrupt in January 2009, and worked in close collaboration with the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institute of Copenhagen University.

QuantumWise offered a system of integrated software modules that could accurately calculate properties associated with electron distribution and transport. The software could simulate experiments with spin-dependent transport, as encountered in Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) technologies and magnetic nanowires.

QuantumWise was acquired by Synopsys in 2017. Its Atomistix Toolkit lives on as Synopsys QuantumATK.