BritChips podcast: Blueshift Memory - Breaking down the wall

If you are not in the semiconductor industry, you may think that the ‘von Neumann bottleneck’ has something to do with the shape of a German beer bottle. On the other hand if you are in the semiconductor industry, you will know that the von Neumann bottleneck is basically what you get when computer memory can’t feed data fast enough to the processor.It’s more colloquially known as the ‘memory wall’, and it tends to grow bigger as developments in processor speed advance faster than those in memory technology.Peter Marosan believes he has an answer to that problem.He’s the founder and CTO of Cambridge-based semiconductor memory startup, Blueshift Memory, and he’s developed a novel memory architecture that has the potential to speed up memory access one-thousand times.Telling the Blueshift story on this BritChips podcast is Helen Duncan. Helen joined Blueshift in 2021 in the newly created role of Chief Marketing Officer, and quickly became the face of the startup to the outside world. She was the obvious candidate to take on the CEO role some three years later, allowing Peter to focus full-time on leading the Blueshift technology team.You can hear Helen Duncan talk about her journey from Project Manager at Plessey Microwave to CEO of a semiconductor startup (with a long spell in the tech media industry in between!) by listening to this BritChips podcast, ‘Blueshift Memory: Breaking Down The Wall’. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit anttheantidote.substack.com