New company focuses on embedded memory technology

Innovative Silicon (ISi) was founded to develop, commercialise and license floating body effect memory intellectual property (IP) for SoC/MPU applications.

Innovative Silicon (ISi) was founded to develop, commercialise and license floating body effect memory intellectual property (IP) for SoC/MPU applications.

The floating body effect is a naturally occurring parasitic phenomenon in silicon on insulator (SoI) transistors.

ISi has harnessed this effect to develop memories that are at least twice as dense as existing DRAM solutions, resulting in dramatic IC cost savings.

Today, complex ICs used in diverse applications including handheld computers, games consoles, cellular communications devices, cameras etc devote over 70% of the die area to memory.