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SILTENE aims at establishing a new manufacturing standard for ultra high-density data storage. SILTENE has developed a disruptive technology to treat magnetic materials for enhancing their density, reducing manufacturing costs and improving yield for both HDD and
MRAM applications.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The challenge of data storage
In order to store and distribute the considerable amount of digital content, fast, high capacity, low form factor and low power non-volatile memories are a crucial enabler of today’s
Information Communication Technologies (ICT). The market today is divided between Flash memories and hard disk drive. While both currently undergo tremendous increases in performance, they also face severe limitations for the mid term future (2015).
Beyond the technological barrier
Several physical factors related to the magnetic medium that stores the data bits are limiting the increase of density for hard disk drive technology but also for Magnetic Random Access
Memory (MRAM) that shows great promise in delivering fast read and write performance with non-volatility in a single technology. SILTENE has developed a back end solution to treat magnetic materials for enhancing their performances, reducing manufacturing costs and improving yield for both HDD and MRAM applications.
Beneficial market
SILTENE targets the Hard Drive Disk and MRAM markets. Three companies share the 50 billion dollars HDD market. These companies cooperate to develop new standards for ultrahigh-density devices. The MRAM market is still emerging but it should grow very rapidly in the next few years (1,5 billion predicted by 2018). Analysts consider MRAM as the universal memory as they have the potential to replace Flash, SRAM and DRAM memories in the near future. Our mission
SILTENE aims to become the leader in advanced magnetic materials for high performance, low power Hard Disk Drive and MRAM applications