SEMIFIVE and ICY Tech Tape Out 8nm eMRAM Edge AI SoC

The project uses Samsung Foundry's 8LPU embedded magnetic RAM process and is described as a step toward commercial deployment of 8nm eMRAM technology in Asia. The article says SEMIFIVE provided ASIC design services while ICY Tech contributed MRAM-focused architecture and processing-near-memory technology for on-device AI inference. The memory angle is direct: eMRAM is positioned as a denser, lower-power alternative to SRAM for edge devices, while avoiding the refresh operations required by DRAM. For RamTrend, this is not a commodity DRAM pricing item, but it is relevant to emerging embedded memory and AI inference architectures that may shape future memory demand at the edge.