Cavendish Kinetics is a fabless semi-conductor company founded in 1994 in Holland. As a fabless company, Cavendish simply designs its products and outsources the physical production of those products. Since 1994, the company has been developing embedded non-volatile memory solutions. The company’s core technology, Nanomech, is the product of extensive research at the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratories. Cavendish’s patented Nanomech technology is a process module that supports various types of non-volatile memory. Cavendish advertises the module as a breakthrough innovation that is highly flexible and adaptable to the individual client’s needs. Specifically, Nanomech is sold as a complete IP package with seamless integration into a chosen CMOS facility. Because the module uses standarad CMOS technology, no new investment in equipment or materials is necessary on the part of the client. Nanomech also operates on ultra low-power, just 25 PicoJoules, enabling it to operate on native voltage without any conversion. However, the module is programmable to operate on higher voltages should the need arise. Additionally, Nanomech is designed to operate efficiently in extremely harsh conditions. So far the module has proven itself capable of operating normally in 200+ degrees centigrade with an extremely high tolerance for radiation. The flexibility and efficiency of Nanomech proves the technology suitable for various applications including: automotive, medical, aerospace, military, and industrial applications. Since Nanomech is an embedded apparatus, it has the potential to drastically improve the operations of any device to which it is applied. By extension, Nanomech has the potential to revolutionize any industry in which it is implemented. For this reason, Cavendish’s innovation may have extensive technological impacts. In reference to Cavendish’s Nanomech Rich Wawrzyniak, Senior Analyst at Semico Research Corporation, says that “With the trend towards increasing numbers of CPU and DSP cores, the demand for embedded memory is going to do nothing but grow. The major hurdle is to find memory technologies that can be applied to popular processes and if these technologies don't require exotic materials and are in themselves relatively low cost, and if they give the memory densities at the right speeds, then the growth potential for this technology is very high.” In fact, according to OneSource, by 2012 the global semiconductor market is expected to grow 53.6% to be valued at approximately $434.8 billion. Consequently, Cavendish will find itself in a market saturated with potential customers, each of whom it will offer a cheap, easy to install, solution to enhance their processes.

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