Quinas Technology is the joint UK winner in the WIPO Global Awards

It is excellent to see Quinas Technology winning this prestigious international award—demonstrating the ability of our great universities to spin out world-class semiconductor research into successful commercial opportunities with a global reach. Through our Industrial Strategy this government will continue to back British innovation like this breakthrough memory technology—making data centres more energy-efficient to help them grow and compete around the world.

Lord Vallance, UK Science Minister

Lancaster University spinout company Quinas Technology has won a 2025 World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Global Award.

The WIPO Global Awards recognise startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that use intellectual property (IP) as a driver for innovation, business growth, and positive social impact.

Quinas was awarded the prize in the ICT Start Up category as one of only ten global winners and the joint first ever UK WIPO winner.

Selected from a highly competitive pool of more than 780 applicants across 95 countries, Quinas was recognised for its work in reshaping the future of computer memory with its patented ULTRARAM™ technology, which combines the speed of DRAM and the non-volatility of flash in a single device. This breakthrough enables faster, more energy-efficient computing with vast applications across data centres, mobile devices, and AI hardware.

The technology was developed at Lancaster University in the research group of Physics Professor Manus Hayne, also Quinas Chief Scientific Officer, resulting in five granted patents in four countries with another eight patents pending to date. […] Lancaster University News