News : MINATEC

The world’s leading foundries—including Samsung, TSMC, and GlobalFoundries—announced early this year that they would be starting volume manufacturing of MRAM memory, marking a major milestone. Among MRAM’s many benefits: It costs less to manufacture than embedded flash memory, is extremely energy efficient, and offers high communication speeds and a virtually-infinite number of cycles. Spintec’s research […] >>

Leti has been developing FD-SOI, a material that substantially reduces circuit energy consumption, for years. In 2014 the institute signed a partnership with GlobalFoundries, the world’s number-two foundry, to scale the technology up for mass fabrication. This year the partnership reached an important milestone: GlobalFoundries is starting mass fabrication of FD-SOI circuits for the IoT […] >>

MEMS are expensive to develop: Each new component requires its own fabrication processes. Leti has been working to develop generic manufacturing processes (M&NEMS) since 2010. A new partnership with a major industrial company could have M&NEMS ready for batch fabrication within three years. As the name suggests, M&NEMS combines microelectromechanical parts and a 250 nm-diameter […] >>

Until recently there was nothing unusual about the Chrome5 conference room on the first floor of Maison MINATEC. But all of that changed in May! Chrome5, which is available to professionals from scientific research and industry, is like no other meeting space on the campus. The 36 sq. m room has a capacity of twelve […] >>

One of the pillars of the MINATEC project is property development. In ten years, nearly 45,000 sq. m of new facilities have been built! First there was B2I (3,200 sq. m)—Mina-News reported on the upcoming delivery of the building in June 2010. B2I was expanded by another 800 sq. m in 2015. Clinatec (6,200 sq. […] >>