Nantero Announces Routine Use of Nanotubes in Production CMOS Fabs

Nantero, Inc., a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices, has resolved all of the major obstacles that had been preventing carbon nanotubes from being used in mass production in semiconductor fabs.

Nantero is developing NRAM™ –a high-density nonvolatile random access memory device. NRAM™ is a ‘universal memory’ that is slated to replace all existing forms of storage, such as DRAM, SRAM and flash memory. The revenue potential for NRAMTM, adds up to over $100B when replacing the memory in applications such as cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, and PDAs, as well as in networking applications. NRAMTM will also enable the instant-on feature in computers which will eliminate the initialization period when computers are turned on. NRAM™ can be manufactured both as standalone devices and as embedded memory in application- specific devices such as ASIC and microcontrollers.

The companies that will benefit if NRAM succeeds.
Harris & Harris (Nasdaq: TINY)
LSI Logic (NYSE: LSI)
On Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN)

Memory chips based on the technology were in “pre-producton” in 2006 and should be out sometime in 2007

They are on production fabs

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