{"id":221015,"date":"2025-08-27T00:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/universal-ultraram-memory-is-one-step-closer-to-production-fast-as-dram-and-retains-data-for-thousands-of-years"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:46:26","slug":"universal-ultraram-memory-is-one-step-closer-to-production-fast-as-dram-and-retains-data-for-thousands-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/universal-ultraram-memory-is-one-step-closer-to-production-fast-as-dram-and-retains-data-for-thousands-of-years","title":{"rendered":"Universal UltraRAM memory is one step closer to production: fast as DRAM and retains data for thousands of years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universal-ultraram-memory-is-one-step-closer-to-production-fast-as-dram-and-retains-data-for-thousands-of-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UltraRAM blurs the line between permanent and random access memory. Quinas Technology and IQE plc have developed the technology for scalable production.<\/p>\n<p>Quinas Technology, the company behind UltraRAM, has been actively working with chipmaker IQE plc over the past year to scale UltraRAM production to industrial levels. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2025\/08\/21\/ultraram-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blocks &amp; Files<\/a>, \u0435he cooperation was successful, and a memory that promises speed, <a href=\"https:\/\/itc.ua\/en\/news\/a-powerful-competitor-to-samsung-and-sk-hynix-china-s-cxmt-will-produce-ddr5-and-hbm3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar to DRAM<\/a> and 4,000 times greater durability, <a href=\"https:\/\/itc.ua\/en\/news\/50-cheaper-ssds-samsung-starts-production-of-9th-generation-v9-qlc-nand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">than NAND<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/itc.ua\/en\/news\/scientists-have-increased-the-speed-of-reading-data-stored-on-dna-by-3200-times-in-10-minutes-instead-of-several-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data retention for up to a thousand years<\/a> is now on the verge of production.<\/p>\n<p>UltraRAM manufacturing is based on the epitaxy process. Complex semiconductor layers are grown with great precision on a crystal substrate. Later, more conventional semiconductor manufacturing processes such as photolithography and etching are used to create the structures of memory chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UltraRAM blurs the line between permanent and random access memory. Quinas Technology and IQE plc have developed the technology for scalable production. Quinas Technology, the company behind UltraRAM, has been actively working with chipmaker IQE plc over the past year to scale UltraRAM production to industrial levels. According to Blocks &amp; Files, \u0435he cooperation was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}