Crocus Technology
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Milpitas, California, USA |
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Key people | Zack Deiri, (President & CEO) Ken Mc Kay, (VP Tech. Development) |
| Products | General purpose and specialty memory chips and technology |
Number of employees | ~100 |
| Website | crocustechnology |
Crocus Technology, founded in 2006, is a venture-capital-backed semiconductor startup company developing Tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) technology. The company's products originated in a Grenoble-based Spintec laboratory and its technology is licensed for stand-alone and embedded chip applications.
History
Crocus Technology was founded in Grenoble in 2004, based on research at the Spintec laboratory.[1] The company eventually moved its headquarters to Santa Clara, California, but retained its engineering base in Grenoble.
Products and technologies
Crocus Technology develops and supplies magnetic sensors based on its revolutionary and patented XtremeSense® TMR technology. Crocus’ magnetic sensors bring significant advantages to industrial and consumer electronic applications requiring high sensitivity, stable magnetic performance over temperature, low power and low noise while lowering the overall total solution cost. The products are Position Sensors and Current Sensors used in automotive, industrial and consumer applications.
Since its founding in 2007, Crocus Technology has focused exclusively on developing TMR-based products, which makes the company unique within the magnetic sensing industry. This single focus has enabled Crocus Technology to attract and grow an expert engineering team, developing an extensive knowledge base that is leveraged by Crocus to release industry-leading products. XtremeSense® TMR technology is the combination of state-of-the-art TMR technology and high-performance, robust designs developed by Crocus Technology over the last several years.
Patents
In intellectual property, the company possesses 154 patents supporting its products. Crocus also has a long-term exclusive license to MRAM-related intellectual property developed at Spintec,[2] CNRS, and CEA.
Joint ventures
On June 18, 2009, Crocus Technology announced a partnership with integrated circuit specialty foundry Tower Semiconductor. As part of the deal, both companies will dedicate special equipment in Tower’s factory, and Tower will fully manufacture Crocus’ TMR technology in its 200mm Fab2 facility. Tower took a $1.25 million equity position in Crocus.
References
- ^ Mark LaPedus,
- ^ "Spintec" Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine. EU Who's Who of Data Storage & Memory Technology. Wide Integrated Technologies Diffusion at University of Exeter. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
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