Southampton University to lead multi-million memristor project

Prof Themis Prodromakis from Southampton University is the principal investigator of the programme, which has received over £11m in funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and industrial partners.

Working with Imperial College London, Manchester University and industry colleagues, the project will centre on memristors - memory chips based on transition metal-oxides - and their ability to enable electronics systems to be configured with increased capability.

Prof Themis Prodromakis said: “Memristor technologies bring great prospects for next-generation chips, which need to be highly reconfigurable yet affordable, scalable and energy-efficient, not to mention secure.

“To achieve this, we have assembled some of the UK’s best academics and industrialists for developing the core technology as well as the required tools for demonstrating the benefits of the technology in real-working services and products.”

Traditionally, the processing of data in electronics has relied on integrated circuits featuring vast numbers of transistors.