If so, what's your opinion on the sudden run of announcements dealing with memristors? By my count, we now have two companies claiming to have functional memristors, one temperature based, the other a titanium oxide composite.
For anyone who doesn't know, a memristor is a type of fundamental electronic component that increases in resistance flows in one direction, reduces in resistance when current flows the other direction, and if the current stops, it maintains it's previous resistance indefinately. HP is touting it as simple to manufacture using existing lithographic techniques, and is claiming to be releasing memristor based devices within the next couple years (flash memory devices first).
Some advances from this new tech: High RAS stable memory, in other words, computer ram that, if power is interrupted, will retain it's previous state, allowing for an elimination of lost data due to power interruption, and instant on systems. More powerful processors without reducing transistor size, 1 memristor can replace up to 5 components in standard linear circuits, giving moore's law an instant turbocharge. solid-state neural networks, a fundamental component with inherent memetic capacity is critical to creating functional solidstate nodes capable of real world applications and provide the capacity for reconfigurability.
I've been hyped over this tech for weeks.
For anyone who doesn't know, a memristor is a type of fundamental electronic component that increases in resistance flows in one direction, reduces in resistance when current flows the other direction, and if the current stops, it maintains it's previous resistance indefinately. HP is touting it as simple to manufacture using existing lithographic techniques, and is claiming to be releasing memristor based devices within the next couple years (flash memory devices first).
Some advances from this new tech: High RAS stable memory, in other words, computer ram that, if power is interrupted, will retain it's previous state, allowing for an elimination of lost data due to power interruption, and instant on systems. More powerful processors without reducing transistor size, 1 memristor can replace up to 5 components in standard linear circuits, giving moore's law an instant turbocharge. solid-state neural networks, a fundamental component with inherent memetic capacity is critical to creating functional solidstate nodes capable of real world applications and provide the capacity for reconfigurability.
I've been hyped over this tech for weeks.
