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by Animats 4042 days ago
The article appears to be a rehash of this Nantero press release:[1] That says "Signaling a new era in memory, Nantero’s NRAM has already been installed in multiple production fabs..."

This technology has been around for a while. Lockheed Martin built a 4MB NRAM back in 2008, and sent it up with a memory tester on a Space Shuttle flight in 2009.[2] That was done in conjunction with Nantero; they had an arrangement for government products. The technology is inherently rad-hard, so it's useful for space operations.

This technology has been two years from volume production since 2008.[3] It's not clear why it hasn't reached production yet. It clearly works. It may just cost too much.

[1] http://nantero.com/nantero-closes-30m-series-e-round-its-nex... [2] http://www.nsti.org/events/NNI/sld/pdf/65.pdf [3] http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/na...