Quinas and IQE receive £1.1 million grant for ULTRARAM industrialisation
2024年7月18日 - 11:53PM
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Innovate UK-funded project to be carried out
with UK Universities of Lancaster and Cardiff
Quinas, innovator of the award-winning new universal memory
technology ULTRARAM™, has announced that it has been awarded an
Innovate UK project worth £1.1 million (US$1.43 million) to be
carried out jointly with global semiconductor company IQE and the
Universities of Lancaster and Cardiff, both in the UK.
Lancaster University spinout firm Quinas will coordinate the
ambitious project, which is the first step towards volume
production of the universal computer memory ULTRARAM invented by
Lancaster Physics Professor Manus Hayne.
ULTRARAM has extraordinary properties, combining the
non-volatility of a data storage memory like Flash, with the speed,
energy-efficiency, and endurance of a working memory like DRAM.
ULTRARAM has a reported switching energy per unit area that is 100
times lower than DRAM, 1,000 times lower than Flash, and over
10,000 times lower than other emerging memories.
Under the one-year project, IQE will scale up the manufacture of
compound semiconductor layers from Lancaster University to an
industrial process at the Cardiff-based firm.
Dr Peter Hodgson, who is leading the project, and is also
co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Quinas, said: “This grant
marks an important milestone as we move towards mass production of
ULTRARAM. A memory combining non-volatility with fast,
energy-efficient write and erase capabilities has previously been
considered unattainable. ULTRARAM’s ability to switch between a
highly resistive state and a highly conductive state is the key to
its unique properties.”
James Ashforth-Pook, CEO and co-founder of Quinas, said: “It is
estimated that the global memory chip market will be worth about
US$320 billion by 2030, but the UK currently has no stake in it.
Future compute will place ever-increasing demands on memory
capability, driven by emerging applications like novel AI and
quantum compute, as well as evolution in more traditional markets
like defence and aerospace. ULTRARAM’s unique combination of
non-volatile storage and rapid access memory addresses many of
those needs, offering the potential for huge energy savings and
carbon emission reduction.”
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James Ashforth-Pook jamesap@quinas.tech