WIND
WIND – Wide INtegrated Technologies Diffusion
WIND
Introduction
Memory Technologies are at the heart of most everyday electronic products used in a host of different application areas – health, avionics, telecommunication, automotive, computing, home systems – and a wide array of mixed technologies and competencies is needed to design and fabricate such memories. Furthermore, our technologically-oriented society is moving steadily towards a new era of ‘ambient intelligence’, where distributed intelligent systems help to process, understand and utilise the plethora of digital information that pervades our everyday life. Since intelligence cannot exist without memory, it is clear that the memories of the future have a key role to play.
The development of a future generation of ‘intelligent memories’ is thus a strategic issue for Europe, since it is in just such advanced technology areas that Europe can and should develop a competitive advantage. It is therefore essential to provide for Europe an overall vision of the future possibilities in the area of memory technology – a clear ‘road map’ that should be disseminated to all interested parties – leading industrial and research laboratories, leading European user companies, as well as the important SME community. It has often been pointed out that the productivity gap currently observed between the USA and Europe is largely due to the difference in usage of information technologies (IT) possibilities. WIND will help to plug this productivity gap for memory and related technologies and their numerous applications.
- Emerging Storage Technologies
- Solid-State Memories
- Optical Memories
- Storage Systems
- Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Training
- Magnetic Data Storage
- Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM)
Objectives
The principal aims of the WIND project are to improve the competitiveness of the European data storage/memory industry through two main actions.
- By creating a European information network for the latest research and development ideas needed to produce the mass-storage memory technologies of the future.
- By developing an effective dissemination strategy to include leading European research institutions and laboratories, leading European industrial companies, electronics design houses, SMEs and their support centres. The training of future generations of scientists and engineers suited to and interested in a career in memory technology areas is to be a priority.
Activities
- The active promotion of productive collaboration between Industry and Academia.
- IMST Technology Conferences covering the entire spectrum of our collective interests.
- IMST Roadmap – The White Book defining our plans for the next and current phases of the project.
E\PCOS Conference 2010
The E\PCOS 2010 conference was successfully held in Politecnico di Milano, Italy, from 5th to 7th September, 2010 and was jointly hosted by Micron, Italy (previously Numonyx, Italy) and Politecnico di Milano, Italy. The highlights of this conference were presentations on 45nm technology for phase-change RAM (PC-RAM) as well as less than 20nm cross-point stackable PC-RAM. For a full list of presentations and their abstracts, please visit the EPCOS conference library.
IMST Conference 2010
IMST 2010 Workshop was successfully held in conjunction with Minatec-Crossroads 2010 in Grenoble, France on 21st June 2010. The workshop was packed with innovative memory technologies like silicon-based memories, resistive memories and a discussion on future memories. The full list of the workshop talks can be found following the link below:
Workshop on Innovative Memory Technologies
The Minatec-Crossroads 2010 conference was a major European conference on Nanotechnology which covered various areas of micro and nanotechnology and their applications to different research areas. It was held from 21st to 24th June 2010. Follow the link below to find out more about Minatec Crossroads 2010.
The EU Who’s Who of Data Storage and Memory Technology is a part of the WIND project. This part of the WIND project was subcontracted by the project leader – Exeter University – to Mackintosh Consultants, data storage industry specialists who have undertaken similar activities for the likes of the DTI, Scottish Enterprise and other private clients. The goal is to uncover all European activity in this field and so create an EU Who’s Who of data storage and memory technology by publishing on this website a directory of all EU-based research, development and manufacturing organisations involved in mass storage.
If you are based in the EU and are actively involved in the research, development or manufacturing of data storage or memory technology products, please submit your details for EU Who’s Who database via this form.