About Intrinsic Semiconductor
Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies makes resistive RAM, a type of non-volatile memory that keeps its data without power, built from silicon oxide. Because the material is common in chip fabrication, the memory can be added to the same CMOS wafers as microcontrollers and edge processors, avoiding a separate flash chip. The company reported scaling its devices to 50 nm with imec. It was founded in 2017 as a University College London spin-off by Anthony Kenyon and Adnan Mehonic. The record lists ferroelectric memory and Austin, Texas, but sources point to silicon oxide memory and a London base.
Intrinsic Semiconductor was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It is listed under Memristors & ReRAM, Memory & Storage. Reported funding is £7M (2023).
Compute Technologies
- Memristors & ReRAM
What Intrinsic Semiconductor works on
Memristors & ReRAM
A memristor is an electronic component whose resistance depends on the current that has passed through it, and it keeps that resistance when power is off. Leon Chua described the idea in 1971. In 2008 researchers at HP Labs published a device they linked to it.
Memory & Storage
Memory and storage hold the data that processors work on. Memory such as DRAM is fast and loses its contents when power is removed. Storage such as flash (NAND) is slower, cheaper per bit and keeps data without power.
