US operation expands into Santa Clara

Innovative Silicon has relocated its US headquarters to a larger facility in Santa Clara, California.

Innovative Silicon has relocated its US headquarters to a larger facility in Santa Clara, California.

Innovative Silicon is a global company with offices on three continents, including Europe, Asia and North America.

Innovative Silicon maintains a sales office in Shin-Yokohama, Japan and its corporate headquarters and research and development operations reside in Lausanne, Switzerland.

"By relocating our US headquarters to a larger facility we are able to provide more room for growth, allowing us to increase our sales staff and work closer with existing and potential customers", said Mark-Eric Jones, President and CEO of Innovative Silicon.

"We're excited about our recent milestones and are looking forward to continuing to engage with companies designing microprocessors and SoCs with high memory requirements targeted for the SOI process".

Innovative Silicon last month announced AMD as a new customer, with AMD contracting to purchase a Z-RAM embedded memory full technology license for potential use in its future microprocessor products.

At the same time, Innovative Silicon also announced that it had achieved silicon validation of its Z-RAM memory arrays on 90nm SOI process technologies, and validation of its memory bitcell (which requires only one transistor and zero capacitors) in an additional ten fabrication processes that include 130nm SOI, 90nm SOI, and FinFET technologies.

Innovative Silicon expects to demonstrate working silicon in multiple 65nm processes later this quarter.

Late last year, Innovative Silicon named Jerry Ardizzone, former President of ARM USA, as its VP of Sales, followed by the appointment of Yuji Okamoto, Director of Business Development, Japan, and Jeff Lewis, VP of Marketing.

"Innovative Silicon's Z-RAM memory IP was created for designers looking to meet increasing on-chip memory requirements while maintaining the same die size and cost basis of earlier designs", said Lewis.

"The density and performance advantages of Z-RAM make it the ideal solution for designers using large blocks of embedded memory or looking to reduce silicon costs for designs with fewer memory requirements".

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