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Design and operation of analog and mixed-signal circuits within the memory array, such as page buffers, sense amplifiers, and data latches, responsible for reading and writing data from/to memory cells.
4,308 US filings from 275 companies since 2023 · 2023: 1,275 · 2024: 1,294 · 2025: 1,189 · 2026 YTD: 550
Memory & Storage (Static)
Top companies
Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.
| # | Company | Since 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | YoY |
|---|
| 1 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 1,019 | 344 | 319 | 230 | 126 | -27.9% |
| 2 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | 480 | 111 | 129 | 183 | 57 | +41.9% |
| 3 | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 308 | 86 | 92 | 83 | 47 | -9.8% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc. | 297 | 86 | 81 | 91 | 39 | +12.3% |
| 5 | CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 186 | 82 | 68 | 33 | 3 | -51.5% |
| 6 | Rambus Inc. | 159 | 40 | 62 | 42 | 15 | -32.3% |
| 7 | Kioxia Corporation | 156 | 59 | 49 | 30 | 18 | -38.8% |
| 8 | MACRONIX International Co., Ltd. | 102 | 37 | 29 | 27 | 9 | -6.9% |
| 9 | STMicroelectronics International N.V. | 97 | 29 | 26 | 23 | 19 | -11.5% |
| 10 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 82 | 21 | 23 | 31 | 7 | +34.8% |
| 11 | YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. | 74 | 6 | 19 | 33 | 16 | +73.7% |
| 12 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 66 | 22 | 21 | 14 | 9 | -33.3% |
| 13 | QUALCOMM Incorporated | 62 | 22 | 9 | 17 | 14 | +88.9% |
| 14 | INTEL CORPORATION | 56 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 11 | -52.6% |
| 15 | Arm Limited | 52 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 8 | -6.2% |
| 16 | Lodestar Licensing Group LLC | 49 | 2 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 0.0% |
| 17 | Winbond Electronics Corp. | 46 | 12 | 17 | 9 | 8 | -47.1% |
| 18 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | 42 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 2 | +41.7% |
| 19 | NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION | 40 | 15 | 4 | 16 | 5 | +300.0% |
| 20 | TSMC CHINA COMPANY LIMITED | 37 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 3 | +20.0% |
| 21 | International Business Machines Corporation | 35 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 5 | +42.9% |
| 22 | GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. | 34 | 8 | 17 | 6 | 3 | -64.7% |
| 23 | SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC | 31 | 20 | 6 | 5 | · | -16.7% |
| 24 | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | 31 | 10 | 8 | 13 | · | +62.5% |
| 25 | TSMC NANJING COMPANY, LIMITED | 30 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 1 | +114.3% |