Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies

Intrinsic Semiconductor is a UCL spinout commercialising novel memristive RRAM (resistive random-access memory) technology aimed at enabling next-generation semiconductor memory and energy-efficient computing applications. 

The company is developing advanced non-volatile memory technologies designed to support lower-power microcontrollers and edge AI systems, helping address growing demands for efficient computing hardware. Non-volatile memory is the permanent memory used in smartphones, laptops, USB sticks, cameras, SSD hard drives etc., and today it is based on the technology known as ‘Flash’ memory. Due to its incompatibility with current manufacturing, it is difficult and costly to integrate Flash memory technology in the same semiconductor chip as the processor. 

This severely impacts power consumption, increases cost, and hampers the development of new applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial intelligence (AI); areas that require lower power, more performance and higher memory capacity.

Intrinsic's leadership team combines semiconductor industry veterans, including CEO Zack Deiri, with UCL founders Professor Tony Kenyon and Dr Adnan Mehonic, internationally recognised experts in nanoelectronics, memristors, and neuromorphic computing. 

The Intrinsic journey so far:

• 2017: Intrinsic is founded at UCL
• 2021: £1.35 million seed funding round, led by UCL Technology Fund.