HP Creates First Hybrid Memristor Chip

An anonymous reader writes "HP researchers have built the first functioning hybrid memristor-transistor chip. Lead researcher Stanley Williams and his team built the very first memristor — the '4th fundamental element' of integrated circuits after resistors, capacitors and inductors — back in April. Memristors can remember their resistance, leading to novel electronic capabilities. The new FPGA circuit uses memristors to perform tasks normally carried out by (many more) transistors and is therefore smaller, more power efficient and cheaper to make, HP says. Memristors could also turn out to be a more compact, faster alternative to flash memory."

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Feds Deregulating Hybrid Corn for ETHANOL??

[Anonymous Coward]

Saw an ad for this article on the article page.

Federal regulators are rushing to pass laws that would allow genetically modified corn to be used for ethanol production.

Screwing with commerce and people's lives again, eh?

Face it..... CORN SUCKS! It rapes the land and produces small amounts of ethanol. (And no... bio-deisel is not better it's worse)

LEGALIZE HEMP PRODUCTION AGAIN!

4 times as much ethanol per acre (and they're not growing the kind you smoke folks)

Legalize medicinal use of cannabis as well. You should be able to grow your own medicine without federal hassles....

WAKE UP AMERICA!