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  Facts and figures
Strengthening the synergy between manufacturing and Research & Development is a priority for Altis Semiconductor. On the highly competitive electronics market, technological progress is vital. This progress will enable Altis Semiconductor to develop its unique and ever growing value added and consolidate its position on the semiconductor market.
- R&D: 11% of sales in 2003
- R&D staff: approximately 100 employees
- Aim: to develop advanced logic technologies based on SoC (System on a chip)
HyperSoc
Launched on a European scale in 2003, HyperSoc
is the main R&D program currently conducted by Altis Semiconductor. Read
the press release
HyperSoc is based on a development project involving non-volatile memories:
the NanoMRAM project. The purpose of this project is to develop MRAM
(magnetic random access memory), a new generation of memory that breaks away
from existing CMOS
technologies.
New technology in this area faces the following development challenges:
- compatibility with requirements of the CMOS technologies currently used in microelectronics,
- accounting for the increasing development of SoC
- breaking physical barriers in different embedded memory technologies currently being developed.
MRAM is based on magnetic technology, and not electric
power, to store data. Unlike conventional memory, it maintains the state of the
information, even in the event of an electric power cut.
MRAM features a number of advantages at a competitive price: non volatility of Flash, the high speed SRAM and the high density of DRAM. It is a potentially universal memory.
The major challenge of the NanoMRAM project
is industrializing a concept for computer memory arising from fundamental research
that can be adapted to CMOS technology and its ongoing development.
European programs
Altis Semiconductor participates in a number of European research programs:
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