Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies is a UCL spinout company, established in 2017 by Professor Tony Kenyon, Dr Adnan Mehonic and Dr Wing Ng, who are leading researchers into non-volatile memory at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London.

The company has already received seed funding from UCLB, UCL Technology Fund and IP Group for its cutting-edge research in this sector. Intrinsic’s analysis of recent data estimates its technology can read data 10x to 100x faster, and write it 1000x faster, than existing  solutions. Furthermore, it is fully CMOS compatible meaning it can be built within existing chip manufacturing facilities, making it easier for foundries to adopt the technology with no additional costs. It also uses standard, frequently used materials, making it less complex or expensive compared to other RRAM solutions. 

Intrinsic’s innovative approach solves the memory bottleneck for data hungry applications by enabling the integration of fast, cheap and very low power memory on the same chip as the processors which will open up a new generation of small devices with big brains that embed intelligence everywhere.