Recently, the mainland China the largest and the most advanced integrated circuit wafer foundry enterprise semiconductor manufacturing international (SMIC), and resistance change type memory (RRAM) technology leader Crossbar, jointly announced that the two sides have non-volatile RRAM development and manufacturing strategic cooperation agreement.

As part of the bilateral cooperation, smic and Crossbar have to sign a contract agreement, based on smic 40 nm CMOS fabrication technology, provide resistance change storage component. This will help customers to low delay, high performance and low power consumption embedded RRAM memory component integration into the MCU and SoC devices, such as in response to a iot, wearable devices, tablets, consumer electronics, industrial and automotive electronic market demand.

Smic has been the development of 130 nm to 130 nm process NOR flash memory, independent research and development of 38 2014 nm process breakthrough, then turned to the more advanced the NAND flash memory, will use 40 nm process OEM PRAM resistance variant memory chips, means that smic has entered the next generation of memory industry.

RRAM device can integrate into standard CMOS logic process, in a standard CMOS wafer between two metal wire. This will lead to a highly integrated the nonvolatile memory of the implementation of the solution, the on-chip nonvolatile memory, processor cores, analog and rf integrated on a single chip.

Highly integrated MCU and SoC design manufacturers require nonvolatile memory technology, Crossbar RRAM CMOS compatibility and smaller size scalability process to make the nonvolatile memory component in lower process node of MCU and SoC integration possible.

Smic can help Crossbar diluted chip cost, shortening the time of entry.

At present, China's semiconductor policy at present main storage industry, since 2015, also unceasingly through mergers and acquisitions related supply chain to speed the growth steps, wafer production capacity expansion of positive. China semiconductor policy continues to bring certain competitive pressure, the samsung memory department would distract samsung in the wafer foundry industry focus.