Quinas exhibits at UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase

Quinas, which was recently chosen to join the UK’s first ever government sponsored semiconductor design incubator, ChipStart UK, is commercialising Lancaster’s ULTRARAM computer memory, which combines the best properties of DRAM and flash into a single device.

The Showcase is being held in collaboration with Innovate UK, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme (UKNQTP).

ULTRARAM inventor, Professor Manus Hayne of the Physics Department at Lancaster University and Chief Scientific Officer at Quinas, says: “We are delighted to be exhibiting at the UK’s flagship quantum technologies event. ULTRARAM exploits quantum phenomena to achieve its contradictory capability to easily change very robustly stored data. It also has great potential for the very low temperature digital electronics that is needed for practical quantum computers.”

The Quantum Technologies Showcase is open to anyone with a vested interest in the UK quantum technology sector, including industry professionals, businesses, academics, government representatives, and investors.

There are keynote speeches by the Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) George Freeman MP; the Chief Executive of UKRI Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser; Tom Newby Deputy Director, Head of the UK Office for Quantum, DSIT; Jonathan Legh-Smith Executive Director, UKQuantum; Elham Kashefi, Chief Scientist, National Quantum Computing Centre; and Tim Spiller, Director, Quantum Communications Hub.

The showcase will also demonstrate the success and progress of UKNQTP, a £1 billion dynamic collaboration between industry, academia, and government. So far, UKNQTP have invested almost £500 million in UK Quantum projects, with a goal of £1 billion by 2024, including several hundred businesses from supply chain, end users, and technology developers.

The showcase follows on from Quinas’ success in being chosen to join the UK’s first ever semiconductor design incubator ChipStart UK, a two-year pilot programme backed by the UK Government providing startups with the technical and commercial help they need to help bring new products to market.

Quinas is one of 12 companies chosen who will share in £1.3 million of ChipStart funding under the National Semiconductor Strategy, which aims to provide support to startups as they grow into future global chip leaders.