# Pat Gelsinger backs Nagare Labs’ bid to expand AI memory capacity

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/former-intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-bets-on-nagare-labs-to-vault-the-memory-wall/
- Published: 2026-10-26T12:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-26T12:14:45+00:00
- Original publisher: The Register
- Original article: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/26/former-intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-bets-on-nagare-labs-to-vault-the-memory-wall/5305181
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## Key points

- Pat Gelsinger is backing Nagare Labs’ Z2RAM memory development.
- Z2RAM aims to pair SRAM-like speed with over five times its bit density.
- The technology could reduce chip counts for some AI workloads.

## Summary

Former Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger is backing Nagare Labs, a start-up developing Z2RAM, a memory technology intended to ease the bandwidth and capacity constraints affecting AI computing. The company says it could combine SRAM-like speed with much greater density and simpler manufacturing, though its claims face a difficult path from research to commercial production.

Founded by Georgia Tech professors Sumem Datta and Shimeng Yu, Nagare builds Z2RAM from oxide semiconductors and plans to integrate it with processors using 3D hybrid bonding. Its transistor-based cells store charge in a transistor’s gate, enabling non-destructive reads, and the company says its first version could provide over five times SRAM’s bit density. That could mean 320 MB in the space used by a 64 MB SRAM tile, potentially reducing the number of chips needed for some AI systems; the article cautions that many memory technologies have failed before.

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