Saifun Semiconductors

Saifun is a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Spansion Inc. Responsible for Driving the Company’s Technology Licensing Business

A wholly-owned subsidiary of Spansion Inc., Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. is a leading provider of intellectual property (IP) solutions for the non-volatile memory (NVM) market. Saifun operates as the Spansion’s licensing arm, managing all of the company’s licensing business. Saifun offers total product and technology solutions that address all segments of the NVM market, including code, data and embedded. Saifun turnkey solutions include patents, technology, process installation expertise, product design and productization. The company’s team of experts accompanies customers from design to production helping them bring more innovative, high performance and cost-effective products to market in the shortest possible time.

History of Collaboration

In March 2008, Saifun became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Spansion Inc. Since 2002, Spansion has been a licensee of Saifun’s NROM intellectual property, which has formed the cornerstone of Spansion’s proprietary MirrorBit technology. MirrorBit technology now represents nearly one fourth of the entire NOR Flash memory segment, and generates revenues at a run rate approaching $2 billion per year. As part of this relationship, Saifun has also provided design services to Spansion, including the successful development of Spansion’s MirrorBit Quad and SPI product families. By combining the two companies, Spansion can further accelerate the development of its next generation product roadmap by directly leveraging over 150 MirrorBit technology and design experts. As of February 2008, Saifun had over 200 patents and patent applications around the Saifun NROM technology and Spansion had over 3,000 patents and patent applications in the area of non-volatile memory, combining Spansion IP and NROM IP.