Ramtron
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US7519073040 |
| founding | 1984 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| Reason for dissolution | Acquisition by Cypress Semiconductor Corporation |
| Seat | Colorado Springs , Colorado |
| management | Eric A. Balzer ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 137 (November 2011) |
| sales | 66,408,000 USD (2011) |
| Branch | electronics |
| Website | http://www.ramtron.com/ |
Ramtron International Corporation , Ramtron for short , was an American fabless manufacturer of FeRAM modules. It was acquired by Cypress Semiconductor Corporation in 2014. The seat was in Colorado Springs , Colorado . The manufacturing partner companies were (as of February 2012) Texas Instruments , Samsung and Toshiba . Ramtron and its partners respectively produced serial and parallel non-volatile memory modules, auxiliary modules for processors, non-volatile state memories and recording modules for events based on FeRAM.
Ramtron was a publicly traded company ( Nasdaq : RMTR).
history
Ramtron was founded in Colorado Springs in 1984. In 1988 the first prototype of a FeRAM module was presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Ramtron built a pilot line for F-RAM modules in the following years. In 1998 Rohm took over the production of Ramtron with its first own product line. Ramtron became fabless and concentrated on the development of FeRAM components. Further development partners such as B. won the above partner companies.
As of February 2012, Ramtron had locations in the USA , Canada , Great Britain , Thailand , China and Japan . In 2015, Ramtron was acquired by Cypress Semiconductor
Products
The main pillar of Ramtron were memory modules in F-RAM technology. There were such modules (as of February 2012) in parallel technology up to a size of 8 Mbit (512 kbit × 16/1 Mbit × 8) and in serial technology up to 1 Mbit (128kbit × 8). Memory modules were also offered specifically for RFID systems in addition to memory modules with very low energy consumption.
Companion chips, e.g. B. serial components with memory and mixed-signal functions, real-time clocks or processor supervisors rounded off the product range for processors. In addition, there were blocks called “status memories” that can restore the logical status after a power failure.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ramtron 2011 financial results (PDF; 163 kB)