To call the first iteration a failure in testing, build and...

To call the first iteration a failure in testing, build and comms, its as if you live in a alternative reality.

When making such false core claims you need at a minimum provide some evidence with facts.

if it was a failure Western Digital would have already terminated the partnership and IMEC would have ended the collaboration process with 4DS.

Western Digital is also a CORE IMEC partner and IMEC is world class and the best in bringing lab tech to fab environments.

I am going to take that you did not understand the below statement made by Dr Guido Arnout or took him out of context to represent your misguided beliefs.

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Dr Guido Arnout, commented “In the Company’s transition to production equipment, identical to that utilised by high volume memory manufacturers, imec and 4DS have learnt to rapidly identify necessary modifications in order to de-risk the latter development cycles which we plan to undenecartake. A major benefit of this early identification is that we can accelerate the whole collaboration process.” 

iteration 1 is a MJOR SUCCESS as it allowed the identifications of necessary modifications to accelerate the process to reach a FAB COMPLIANT 1Mb interface switching ReRAM chip.