2026 Outlook with Coby Hanoch of Weebit Nano

Coby Hanoch is the CEO of Weebit Nano. Coby has nearly 45 years’ of experience in the semiconductor and related industries, including engineering, engineering management, sales, and executive roles. Coby was previously CEO at PacketLight Networks, and held VP Worldwide Sales roles at both Verisity and Jasper Design Automation.

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.

Weebit Nano is a provider of advanced non-volatile memory (NVM) IP. We develop and license our ReRAM technology to foundries, IDMs and product companies. I joined Weebit eight years ago, when we were effectively a startup with two engineers. Today, we are a production-ready ReRAM provider with over 60 employees, about a third of which are PhDs. We also have license agreements with onsemi, Texas Instruments, DB HiTek, and SkyWater, as well as several agreements with product companies.

What was the most exciting high point of 2025 for your company?

For me, the standout high point was the momentum behind commercial validation and our move into a genuinely production-ready position. The onsemi and TI agreements are good examples of that, because they combine manufacturing and product licensing in the relationships, which is rare and powerful.

On the technology side, it was also exciting to see our readiness for demanding use cases: we’ve qualified our ReRAM to AEC-Q100 at 150°C and demonstrated more than 100,000 endurance cycles, and we’ve proven the technology in silicon across 130nm, 65nm, 28nm and 22nm, and successfully simulated it on FinFET nodes as well.

What was the biggest challenge your company faced in 2025?

One of the biggest challenges is that the industry doesn’t switch memory technologies overnight. Embedded flash is still widely used because it’s familiar and deeply embedded into design flows, even though scaling and integration constraints are getting harder to ignore.

Another practical challenge is simply execution at scale: supporting multiple customers and multiple projects means building the processes, teams, and infrastructure to deliver consistently across foundry integration, product modules, and ongoing engineering support.

How is your company’s work addressing this challenge?

We address the natural adoption hesitance by proving we are ready for real production: licensing to credible partners, demonstrated silicon, and qualification work that matters to customers. We also help customers see the significant advantages ReRAM has in terms of low manufacturing cost, faster access time and lower power consumption.

We’re also strengthening our operating model around customer delivery: expanding our global sales and support footprint, streamlining and automating procedures including building a Customer Success team with deep fab experience so we can effectively run multiple customer programs.

What do you think the biggest growth area for 2026 will be, and why?

I expect many foundries and IDMs, with whom we have been talking for some time, to step forward and engage with us in licensing agreements. The demand for ReRAM is growing every day, and key players have already engaged with Weebit, so the perceived risk level is dropping significantly.

One of the biggest growth areas will be edge AI moving toward more integrated, monolithic designs where on-chip NVM becomes a real differentiator for cost, power, and security.

I also see strong growth in smarter automotive MCUs driven by electrification and ADAS, where reliability and advanced-node integration are increasingly important.

In reality, there are other compelling segments too, as almost every application needs embedded NVM, including more integrated analog and mixed-signal ICs (like smart PMICs), and high-reliability environments such as aerospace and LEO satellites.

How is your company’s work addressing this growth?

For edge AI, ReRAM is a strong fit because it enables keeping weights on-chip, which can reduce latency and power consumption, and improve security. ReRAM bits are also smaller than SRAM bits, supporting higher on-chip memory density and higher accuracy.

For automotive and harsh environments, we’ve focused on the reliability that customers need, including qualifying for AEC-Q100 at 150°C and endurance beyond 100,000 cycles. We are already demonstrating operation at higher temperatures.

For analog and mixed-signal designs, our ReRAM is back-end-of-line (BEOL), which makes it easier to integrate without compromising analog blocks, making these designs more efficient at lower manufacturing cost compared to flash.

Towards supporting growth in these markets and others, our focus in 2025 was setting up the infrastructure to support many big customers in parallel. As more and more companies move towards ReRAM as their embedded NVM of choice, our new Customer Success team will ensure the success of all the projects we engage in.

What conferences did you attend in 2025 and how was the traffic?

In general, we prioritize conferences where we can schedule high-quality meetings with foundries, IDMs, and SoC teams focused on embedded NVM, edge AI, and automotive. When the audience is concentrated, the traffic and meeting quality are strong. In 2025 we participated at Embedded World in Germany, CES in the USA, and numerous local shows around the globe. Our technologists also presented at conferences like CEA-LIST Tech Days, MPSoC’25, The Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) and the VLSI Symposium.

Will you participate in conferences in 2026? Same or more as 2026?

We expect to participate at a similar level or slightly more than 2026, focusing on events that concentrate on our target customers and convert into real project engagement.

How do customers normally engage with your company?

Customers typically engage with us in two ways. Foundries and IDMs license our technology for process integration and qualification, with license fees, NRE and support. Product companies license ReRAM modules for SoCs, again with license fees, possible NRE, and royalties once products go into production.

We also work with product companies on tailored ReRAM modules optimized to their chip, because foundries may not want to customize memory modules for each product. Companies can reach us through our website at www.weebit-nano.com.

Are you incorporating AI into your products?

We see AI as a major driver for ReRAM adoption, as ReRAM is well suited to edge AI and neuromorphic approaches. ReRAM offers significantly higher density than SRAM, enabling a larger number of model coefficients to be stored directly on chip, which in turn improves inference accuracy within the same silicon footprint. We have already validated AI inference using ReRAM in working silicon and are seeing increasing momentum around near-memory and in-memory computing approaches. And because each ReRAM cell can function analogously to a synapse, the technology aligns naturally with neuromorphic computing architectures.

To be clear, we’re primarily an embedded memory IP and licensing company, so the AI aspect is mostly about enabling our customers’ AI-capable chips.

Is AI affecting the way you develop your products?

We believe there are many ways in which AI can make us more efficient, as well as enable better analysis of the data we accumulate. To this end, we have engaged with a leading university AI professor who is reviewing our R&D processes and procedures and recommending how AI can help improve them.

Additional comments?

I believe we’re at a turning point for embedded non-volatile memory. ReRAM is increasingly validated in real silicon, and in the commitments made by key players. It scales where embedded flash does not, and it integrates in a way that aligns with where SoCs are heading. I expect 2026 to be the year where many companies, both fabs and product companies, make the move towards using ReRAM as their embedded NVM of choice.

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