“These patents demonstrate the level of innovation from the exceptional engineering team at ISi that results in a highly differentiated IP offering,” said Mark-Eric Jones, president and CEO of ISi. “We are committed to continue this innovation in order to constantly improve and expand our Z-RAM memory technology and provide our licensees with the compelling solutions that they need for a wide range of different applications.”
ISi’s portfolio of patented inventions in the area of ultra-dense semiconductor memory technology that exploits the floating body effect of SOI devices was first presented in 2001 at the IEEE International SOI Conference. Since that time, ISi’s Z-RAM technology has unveiled two generations of its products with Z-RAM Gen2 being announced in December 2006.