- Ulrararam seeks to unify storage and memory after decades of attempts
- Innovate UK Financing in 2023 gave Ques Technology Momentum Critical
- Recognition in the commercial visibility of Ulrararam Elevated Ulrararam at the Flash Memory Summit
The search for a single memory capable of combining the persistence of flash storage with the speed of system memory has been ongoing for decades.
Several candidates, such as resistive memory, magnetist cells and the SSDs of Intel, tried to merge these roles, but none lasted in conventional markets.
However, a few years ago, attention changed to Ulrararam, a technology originally designed at the University of Lancaster and then advanced by Technology Quinas, a startup based in the United Kingdom founded to convert research into a practical product.
From academic research to prototype memory
The first studies described this technology as “a non -volatile memory with the potential to achieve rapid storage and ultralide energy electrons”, which increases the hope that the gap between SSD and RAM can close.
Momentum grew in 2023 when Quina Technology obtained an UK Innovate subsidy, a government agency that supports commercial science.
The prize continued its recognition at the Flash Memory Summit that same year, where the company won the prize for the most innovative flash memory start.
The financing allowed the kinas to move from the prototypes at the laboratory scale to nanometric scale devices, a key requirement for Ulraram to compete with the largest SSD and RAM products in the market.
For a national organism to make confidence in the project and even fund, it suggests that Ulraram has progressed beyond speculative research.
This represents the type of “mass impulse” required to start a severe work, often a step of the previous memory technologies that failed before production.
It is said that Ulrararam combines rapid access times with ultraalw change energy and potentially measured storage resistance in centuries.
It is also a technology whose longevity exceeds that of an average Flash SSD storage, but with a lower energy demand.
It promises to coincide with RAM’s reading and writing speeds while offering NAND non -volatility.
If such claims are kept at scale, future computer devices could merge storage and memory into a single layer.
Not only will it eliminate the traditional division between SSD and RAM, but it could also make conventional memory dimm obsolete because it combines the speed of dram with the persistence of the flash while eliminating the inefficiencies that affect both.
Unlike dram, it does not require constant refreshing or destructive readings, already a difference from flash, it does not need load pumps or wear leveling.
However, industrial challenges should not be underestimated. Intel’s Optane technology also promised a hybrid solution, but finally retired due to poor adoption and high costs.
The manufacturing density comparable to the largest SSD of today, along with consistent yields below ten nanometers, remains uncertain.
These barriers mean that Ulrararam’s idea as a universal memory is still closer to aspiration than the guaranteed result.
Through PC Gamer
