The 17th MRAM Global Innovation Forum
December 11, 2025
San Francisco, USA
Registration is open
December 11, 2025
San Francisco, USA
The MRAM Global Innovation Forum is an annual event that brings together leading experts, researchers, and industry professionals in the field of Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM).
The forum serves as a platform for sharing the latest advancements, innovations, and research findings in MRAM technology, which is a type of non-volatile memory known for its high speed, endurance, and low power consumption.
This annual one-day event, held the day after IEDM, will feature 12 invited talks from leading experts in MRAM technology, along with a panel discussion.
Date & Location
December 11, 2025
8:45 AM - 6 PM | Room Imperial A/B
Registration
From September 22 to December 1, 2025
The event is free and includes a free lunch, but it is limited to 250 participants.
Preliminary Program agenda
TechnologyDevelopment
Allen Wang, TSMC - High-Performance MRAM for advancing automotive innovation
Siddarth Gupta, GlobalFoundries - MRAM macro design challenges for Automotive applications in 22nm-FDSOI technology
Jeong-Heon Park, Samsung - Recent Advances in Robust and Scalable Embedded MRAM
Product Development I
tbd, NXP - TBD
Tomoya Saito, Renesas - Trends in Embedded MRAM MCUs for Edge AI Applications
Masanori Hosomi, Sony - eMRAM for image sensor applications
Product Development II
Max Simmons, Numem - TBD
Reza Kazerounain, Alif Semiconductor - TBD
Exploratory Topics
Xioayu Kang, LAM - Tight pitch MRAM etch with Lam IBE system
Guohan Hu, IBM - Progress and gaps in Double Spin-torque MTJs for last level cache applications
Takahiro Hanyu, Tohoku University - Challenges of CMOS/spintronics-hybrid logic design for edge AI hardware
Booklet
Booklet is here (TBD)
Panel Discussion
Advantages & Challenges of MRAM on system-level designs (from user perspective)
Panelists
TBD
Name, Affiliation
Organizers
Chair
Kevin Garello and Daniel Worledge
Program Committee
Bernard Dieny (Spintec, France)
Shunsuke Fukami (Tohoku University, Japan)
Kevin Garello (Spintec, France)
Jean Anne Incorvia (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Jordan Katine (Western Digital, USA)
Kyung-Jin Lee (KAIST, South Korea)
Luc Thomas (Vertical Computing Technology, USA)
Daniel Worledge (IBM, USA)
Ackowledgements
This Forum marks the 17th edition of a series initiated by Samsung Semiconductor in 2013.
It is supported by Samsung Semiconductor through a donation to the IEEE Magnetics Society.
The Society extends its deep gratitude to Samsung for their continued sponsorship.
We also thank the IEEE Magnetics Society for their logistical support and additional funding.