By Coby Hanoch, CEO, Weebit Nano

Coby Hanoch
2025: A Year of Change for Embedded Memory
As we enter 2025, I want to share with you a few of the trends we are seeing, and the impact they will have on the use of non-volatile memory (NVM) in electronic systems. As a developer and licensor of innovative NVM technology – Weebit ReRAM – we are seeing a great deal of disruption in the industry, and we predict this will mean a turning point for embedded NVM in 2025.
2025 will be the year the industry standardizes on ReRAM as an embedded NVM.
For more than 20 years, the semiconductor industry has been looking for the next NVM technology that will replace flash. Many options have been considered, including FeRAM, PCM (and its derivatives Optane and 3D XPoint), MRAM, CBRAM and ReRAM. Over the years most of these technologies were dropped due to cost or complexity of manufacturing. MRAM is now in mass production, but is expensive and susceptible to magnetic fields. In recent years we are witnessing an industry shift towards ReRAM, which is lower cost and simpler to manufacture. While flash memory is still the most popular NVM, the move to ReRAM is now clear, both because embedded flash can’t feasibly scale beyond 28nm, and because of ReRAM’s cost, power, and performance advantages.