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What is Weebit? Patent Protection Weebit was incorporated in Israel in 2014. It has been built around a revolutionary Weebit has secured 7 global patents to commercially protect James Tour’s advancements in memory technology. memory and semiconductor technology invented by Professor James Tour of Rice University in Houston, Texas. James Tour is a world-renowned leader in the field of materials engineering and nanotechnology, and retains the position of Chief Scientific Advisor. PCT/US2012/025435 Weebit is developing Tour’s new silicon oxide (SiOx) Resistive Random Access Memory “SiOx Based Invisible / US Pat. 8,390,326 (ReRAM) technology, and will be able to show a commercially viable product within 18 months. Transparent Nonvolatile Memory” “Method for Fabrication of This quantum leap will allow semiconductor memory elements to become cheaper, faster, a Semiconductor Element....” more reliable and more energy efficient than the existing Flash technology. US Pat. 7,973,559 “Non Charged Based Two Terminal... The Problem Resistive Switching Cells” US Pat. 8,592,791 Global data storage requirements are growing exponentially, doubling every two years. “Silicon Oxide Based Memristive Device” Moore’s Law observes that the number of transistors in dense integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. However, Moore’s Law will soon become untenable in the field of data storage due to Flash technology reaching its scaling limits. With the explosion PCT/US2014/066303 of Internet of Things, cloud based storage and the memory needs of consumer electronic “Porous SiOx Material for Improvement devices, increased storage capacity is required. in Switching Device Performance” PCT/US2012/052450 Addressable SiOx Memory Array with Incorporated Diodes” The world needs a replacement to Flash technology, which will soon become outmoded PCT/US2011/050812 “SiOx Based Nonvolatile Memory Architecture” The Opportunity The current overall market size for Flash memory is estimated Key Information at US$37 billion, and the emerging non-volatile market alone is expected to grow from $580 million in 2015 to $3.6 billion in 2020. ReRAM technology can replace traditional Flash memory, and CEO Accounting is expected to be used widely from 2018 onwards. Flash memory Yossi Keret Yossef Aviv CPA (Isr.) scalability below 16nm is a technological challenge, because CSA Auditors at these dimensions electrons cannot be confined in a floating Prof. James Tour BDO Israel gate. This results in poor reliability and poor speed, compared to ReRAM. VP R&D Law Firm Amir Regev Goldfarb Seligman & Co., Law Offices Electra Tower BoD 98 Yigal Alon Street, Dr. Amiram Bornstein Tel Aviv 67891, Israel Company Background Dr. Moti Gross Visit Us Tel: 972(3) 608-9805 Rami Hadar www.weebit-nano.com Weebit Nano Ltd. was incorporated in November 2014 and partnered with Rice University to develop and commercialize Prof. Tour’s Yossi Keret Amount of Financing Sought new SiOx ReRam technology that will change the storage memory Flash market. Invested in by several private investors, Weebit has $5 million equity Contact us begun the product development process and will be able to show a commercially viable product within 18 months. Industry [email protected] Semi-conductors Current Investors Weebit has signed an R&D agreement with the Tour Lab Group at Rice University, one of the leading groups in materials technology Private Investors ($1.5 million) today, to further develop SiOx technology. Weebit has licensed 7 global patents on Prof. Tour’s technology. Number of employees 6 Use of Funds Product development & Bank commercialization Bank Leumi Lisrael Bursa Branch Partners Ramat Gan, Israel Rice University, Houston, Texas SiOx Memory The Technology Weebit in Outer Space ReRAM is accepted as the “most likely to succeed” technology for Flash replacement. Prof. Tour, one of the leading scientists and In 2012, Rice University in collaboration with NASA, chemist of our generation, and a member of the Weebit team, has developed a ReRAM memory technology made from Silicon Oxide, sent several memory chips made of silicone oxide the cheapest and most ubiquitous material in the semiconductor industry. from Tour’s laboratory to the International Space Weebit in the Media Weebit has demonstrated a working ReRAM SiOx device that Station for testing. The purpose of the experiment outperforms Flash in every parameter: Sub 50 ns for Most commonly Sub 5 nm Potential 1D-1R, was to demonstrate robustness of the chip circuits Rice’s Silicon Oxide Memories catch Manufacturers’ eye write and erase found in nature 1T-1R, and 1S-1R when exposed to solar and other cosmic radiation. http://phys.org/news/2014-07-rice-silicon-oxide-memories- Performance: 1,000 times faster; the ability to match Switching Scaliabilty & Powerful computers are essential to space technology, eye.html the demand of faster devices Cost Speed Integration thus the ability to maintain coherence in such hostile CNN Report: Here Comes the Terabyte Phone Reliability: Reducing data corruption and eliminating errors environments is crucial. This is particularly important up to http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/31/tech/cnn-10-ideas-phone- 9 bits SiOx Memory for satellite circuitry created for missions to Mars, Energy efficiency: Lower power consumption increased Energy storage/index.html and beyond. battery life Multibit Nanotechweb.org: Nanoporous Oxide Makes Good Memory 0.5 pJ/bit After 2 years in space, exposed to harsh radioactive Cost: Reduces production cost Device solar and cosmic rays, Weebit’s memory devices http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/57925 Scalability: 10x smaller cells; the ability to store more Power Perfomance Fabrication were still functioning, with zero deterioration or loss information on the same surface area of performance. As a result, Weebit’s memory chips Prof. James Tour named Scientist of the Year have received a “Hard-Rad” status, meaning that it is http://news.rice.edu/2013/11/01/tour-named-scientist-of- Based on SiOx : The most common material in the Low voltage forming up to 107 ON-OFF ratio Standard CMOS tech. 5 largely impervious to the effects of radiation. This renders the-year/ semiconductor industry, thereby avoiding capital expenditure 10- W/bit 10y retention at 100C Low temperature process 100K cylces radiation Substrate - Independent Weebit’s chip material ideal for space missions, satellite required for re-tooling hardened memory technology, and other radiation exposed applications. Tour demonstrated for the first time (published in the New York Times, 2010) that SiOx shows superior memory element performance, compared to any other known material. More recently, he developed a new industry-applicable element employing a nano-porous SiOx material which outperforms the switching ability of any other unipolar memory. It is the first implementation of a nano-porous material in memory devices with industry accepted performance metrics. In simple words, Tour discovered that sending Credit: Rice University, Tour Group Lab a current through silicon oxide, an insulator, could create a conductive pathway of silicon crystals. Electrical pulses could then repeatedly break and reconnect the pathway, and can be read as zero or one, the building blocks of computer memory. Weebit is currently negotiating with household name semiconductor manufacturers to begin Weebit’s memory chips being The ISS where the tests were made Weebit’s chips floating in zero gravity the commercialisation process. prepared for shipment to the ISS prior to beginning the 2 year test Weebit in Multiple Applications Consumer Electronics Internet of Things: Content The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects A forecasted 40 zettabytes of storable content will be Smartphones and tablets: Automotive: embedded with electronics, software, sensors and network produced annually by 2020, and that number is expected Smartphones and tablets are the Navigation, Infotainment and safety connectivity, thus enabling these objects to collect and exchange to continue doubling every 2 years. One zettabyte is equal major application where non-volatile components which require high data. The IoT allows objects to be sensed and controlled remotely to a thousand exabytes or a billion terabytes memory is used. Newer technologies reliability data storage devices. across existing network infrastructure, promoting direct integration Connectivity such as ReRAM can revolutionise this and communication between the Cloud Data Centres device connectivity requires ultra application segment. physical world and computer-based fast response time, which are currently implemented Health Care: Wearable: systems. Over 50 billion electronic by expensive SSD Flash drives. These can be replaced Pacemakers, heart rate monitors, and blood Adoption of these devices is expanding devices will be connected to the by ReRAM memory storage. pressure monitors. Non-volatile memory rapidly, and non-volatile memory chips internet by 2020 and each device will devices will outperform in this field due to will be required for reliability, efficiency, require fast, cost effective and reliable higher read and write speeds. and added functionality. memory technology. Professor James Tour Weebit Managment James M. Tour, a synthetic organic chemist, received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Syracuse University, his Ph.D. in synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry from Purdue Mr.Yossi Keret | CEO University, and postdoctoral training in synthetic