On further review...
It's worth highlighting that the process TI is showing this year isn't for a 8Mb standalone chip. It's 8Mb FRAM embedded in a working logic product, a/k/a, a DSP application:
11:25 J-8-3
Manufacturable High-Density 8Mb 1T-1C FRAM Embedded Within a Low-Power 130nm Logic Process
K. R. Udayakumar1,
T. S. Moise1,
S. R. Summerfelt1,
K. Boku1,
J. Rodriguez1,
K. Remack1,
J. Gertas1,
M. Arendt1,
G. Shinn1, J. Eliason2,
R. Bailey2 and
P. Staubs2,
1Texas Instruments
Inc. and 2Ramtron
International Corp.
(USA)
ssdm.jp
The same players tipped this product line for a presentation in Japan over a year ago:
Abstract:
We report the electrical properties of a full-bit functional 8 Mbit one transitor–one capacitor (1T–1C) embedded ferroelectric random access memory (eFRAM) fabricated within a low-leakage 130 nm 5 lm Cu interconnect complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) logic process. To increase manufacturability and reliability margins, we have introduced a single-bit substitution methodology that replaces bits at the low-end of the original distribution with redundant elements leading to an increased signal margin. Further, we have fabricated a digital signal processor (DSP) using the eFRAM process flow and have shown that the operating frequency is nearly the same relative to the CMOS baseline. With the development of logic-compatible eFRAM, we have created a technology platform that enables ultra-low-power devices.
jjap.ipap.jp
I would guess that they a year or less away from production. Also note that the Daesung-Eltec auto application is a "DSP" based product line:
Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), a leading developer and supplier of non-volatile ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) and integrated semiconductor products, has announced that Daesung-Eltec Co. Ltd. of Korea has designed FRAM memory into its new digital signal processing (DSP)-based car audio platform.
edageek.com
The Korean application will use only the 64k FM24C64 product so it is not the same product TI is talking about. But on top of the RFID developments by Samsung, Fujitsu and TI; Ramtron's FRAM only 8bit MCU product; and the fimicro PC104 Board recently announced... it does suggest that embedded FRAM is gaining significant traction for both program and data storage applications.
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