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A couple of days ago, Everdisplay disclosed its first major design win with a "top enterprise storage vendor" for its 40nm 256Mb STT-MRAM chips. We now know that this vendor is IBM - as it introduced its latest-generation enterprise SSD FlashSystem, which indeed includes Everspin's STT-MRAM.

Using MRAM instead of DRAM memory enabled IBM to remove the relatively large supercapacitors (used to make the DRAM non-volatile) and so the company was able to reduced the size of its drives and switch to a standard 2.5-inch U.2 drive form factor. The new FlashSystem SSDs support up to 19.2TB of 64L 3D TLC NAND. IBM's system uses a 20-channel NAND interface and a four-lane PCIe 4.0 host interface that can operate in dual-port 2+2 mode.

Everspin announced that it will demonstrate its latest MRAM technologies at the Flash Memory Summit 2018 which starts today.

In its PR, Everdisplay discloses its first major design win with a "top enterprise storage vendor" for its 40nm 256Mb STT-MRAM chips. Everspin says that MRAM enabled the vendor to achieves new levels of performance, storage capacity and reliability.

Everspin announced its financial results for Q1 2018 - revenues reached a record $14.9 million as product revenues grew more than 40% compared to Q1 2017 and as Everspin received an upfront 3D sensor license fee with Alps Electric. Net loss in Q1 was $1.3 million, down from $6.1 million in Q1 2017.

At the end of the quarter, the Everspin had $33.9 million in cash and equivalents (up from $13 million in Q4 2017). In February 2018 Everspin raised $24.5 million in a secondary offering. Everspin expects revenues in Q2 2018 to be in the range of $10.9 million to $11.3 million.

SMART Modular Technologies announces that it has began shipping its new 1Gb nvNITRO Accelerator Card that features MRAM technology. These new nvNITRO cards use Everspin's STT-MRAM chips. SMART says that nvNITRO is ideally suited for the most demanding transaction logging applications and is designed with plug-and-play capability requiring no changes to system hardware, memory reference, bios or file systems.

SMART further says that the new cards enable a system application to write or log large amounts of data at the full performance of incoming data and provides extremely low and highly consistent read latencies of under 10µs. Because of the non-volatility of the MRAM chips, these cards do not need any power source such as super capacitors or batteries.

Everspin announced its financial results for Q4 2017 - revenues reached a record $10.1 million (up 43.3% from the $7.1 million in Q4 2016). Net loss in Q4 2017 was $4.4 million (down from $5.3 million in Q4 2016).

For the full year 2017, revenues increased 32.6% and reached a record $35.9 million (up from $27.1 million in 2016) - while the net loss in 2017 was $21.1 million.

Everspin announced its preliminary unaudited financial results for Q4 2017. Total revenues is estimated at $10 million to $10.2 million, up from $9 million in Q3 2017 and $7.1 million in Q4 2016. The net loss is estimated at $4.3 million to $4.5 million (down from $5.4 million in the past quarter and $6.1 million in Q4 2016).

Total cash and equivalents as of the end of 2017 was $13 million. Everspin also announced it is set to raise about $25 million in a new underwritten public offering.

Everspin announced that the company recorded revenue for its first 40nm 256Mb STT-MRAM (pMTJ) products in Q4 2017, and is now ramping up volume production. The 256Mb STT-MRAM employs an innovative ST-DDR3 interface, unlocking performance previously unattainable in legacy MRAM components.

These new 40nm 256Mb chips are produced by Global Foundries, Everspin's production partner, which says it is on track to its risk production release of 22FDX eMRAM in 2018.

In March 2017 Everspin announced its nvNITRO line of storage accelerators, with 1GB and 2GB capacities, based on the company's 256Mb DDR3 ST-MRAM chips. Everspin is accepting orders for these accelerators which should start shipping by the end of the year.

In the video above you can see a recent demonstration by Everspin of how these nvNITRO accelerators provide superior latency determinism enabling a Low Latency Write Buffer for applications such as Apache Log4J.

Everspin reports its financial results for Q3 2017. Revenues reached a record $9 million (up from $7.2 million in Q3 2016 and up only slightly from last quarter), while the net loss grew to $5.4 million (up from $1.4 million in Q3 2016).

At the end of the quarter, Everspin had $17.8 million in cash and equivalents (down from $21.2 million at the end of Q2 2017). Everspin expects revenue in Q4 2017 to be in the range of $9.9 million to $10.3 million.

In September 2016 Everspin announced that its perpendicular (pMTJ) STT-MRAM memory is going to be deployed by Global Foundries as an embedded 22nm memory (as part of the 22FDX platform). Today GlobalFoundries (GF) announced that eMRAM technology is now available for the 22FDX platform.

GF says that its eMRAM technology is the industry's most advanced embedded memory solution, and it provides high performance and superior reliability for broad applications in consumer and industrial controllers, data centers, Internet of Things, and automotive.