Stuttgart, Germany – Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the venture capital arm of the Bosch Group, has completed an investment in Dresden (Germany) based Ferroelectric Memory GmbH (FMC) in a USD 20 million Series B funding round. FMC is developing an entirely new ultra-low-power and high performance memory technology for embedded and stand-alone memory. Standard Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) process compatibility enables best ease-of-integration into existing manufacturing processes. The Series B funding round is led by M Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Merck, and imec.xpand together with RBVC, SK Hynix and TEL Ventures. “Embedded AI applications for automotive and industry 4.0 use cases require massive memory for huge amounts of data to be processed" says Managing Director Dr. Ingo Ramesohl. "With near-zero power consumption and fast access speed, FMC's technology has unrivaled potential to improve inference and training on the edge."
Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC) is the corporate venture capital company of the Bosch Group, a leading global supplier of technology and services. RBVC invests worldwide in innovative start-up companies at all stages of their development. Its investment activities focus on technology companies working in areas of business of current and future relevance for Bosch, above all, automation and electrification, energy efficiency, enabling technologies, and healthcare systems. RBVC also invests in services and business models that are relevant to the above-mentioned areas of business. Furthermore, RBVC enables co-innovation between Bosch and startup through the Open Bosch Program.
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About Ferroelectric Memory GmbH
FMC has developed the most advanced ferroelectric hafnium oxide memory technology to deliver leading-edge non-volatile memory for future electronics and computing innovation. The company emerged from stealth mode in July 2018 and is currently working with major semiconductor companies for its embedded and stand-alone memory solution. Its ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) and capacitor (FeCAP) technology is simple, fast, low-power, and scalable, and has high-endurance with decades of data retention, suitable for a broad range of AI, IoT, edge, data center, and embedded applications. Additional information is available at: www.ferroelectric-memory.com
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