Innovative Silicon

Innovative Silicon, Inc.(ISi) is the inventor and licensor of the Z-RAM® ultra-dense memory technology for stand-alone DRAM memory applications. Simpler to manufacture than traditional DRAM, Z-RAM is the world’s lowest-cost semiconductor memory technology. Z-RAM is a “Zero Capacitor,” true single-transistor floating body memory that eliminates the complex capacitor found in today’s DRAM technologies – a fundamental roadblock to Moore’s Law of scaling. Z-RAM provides semiconductor manufacturers a solution for nanoscale manufacturing processes that can dramatically lower semiconductor costs. The Z-RAM memory technology has been licensed by Hynix Semiconductor for use in its DRAM chips, and by AMD for use in microprocessors. Since 2003, the company has closed three funding rounds totaling $47 million, received dozens of patents on the technology, developed test chips in multiple technologies from 90nm to 32nm, and has established global R&D, engineering and support centers in Europe, Asia and North America. For more information see