ZYTREX ADVANCED MEMORIES CORPORATION is a startup company that was incorporated in DE.
Wanlass has been involved in several start-up ventures, including Four Phase, Zytrex and Standard Microsystems. Because of their low power requirements, CMOS chips are well-suited to battery-powered devices: The digital watch was one of the first products to make use of CMOS technology and CMOS chips are now part of nearly every electronic device.
Frank Wanlass invented the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), the technology employed in most modern microchips. When Wanlass joined Fairchild Semiconductor in 1962, he wanted to improve the stability of silicon field-effect transistors by joining p-channel and n-channel transistors, but had to overcome several technical hurdles — not the least of which was that the particular n-channel metal oxide field effect transistors that he needed did not yet exist. After some deft physics, Wanlass built his circuit. In standby, Wanlass’ demonstration CMOS drew six times less power than the day’s state-of-the-art bipolar circuits.
