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HP Reports Memory Resistor Breakthrough

Posted by samzenpus on from the flip-the-switches dept.

andy1307 writes "Hewlett-Packard scientists on Thursday will report advances demonstrating significant progress in the design of memristors, or memory resistors. The researchers previously reported in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they had devised a new method for storing and retrieving information from a vast three-dimensional array of memristors. The scheme could potentially free designers to stack thousands of switches on top of one another in a high-rise fashion, permitting a new class of ultra-dense computing devices even after two-dimensional scaling reaches fundamental limits."

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  1. My memory... by actionbastard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Has been resisting me for years. I'll be damned if I can remember where I put my keys.

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    1. Re:My memory... by girlintraining · · Score: 1, Funny

      Has been resisting me for years. I'll be damned if I can remember where I put my keys.

      Have you tried turning your brain off and back on again?

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    2. Re:My memory... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You forgot...that memristors are non-volatile.

    3. Re:My memory... by ArcadeNut · · Score: 4, Funny

      They are right under your fingers... you used them to type in your message, remember?

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    4. Re:My memory... by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You could have used Google.

  2. And that is the difference... by judolphin · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the real difference between genuine R&D (actual breakthrough in computer science) and Cupertino R&D (Let's remove the floppy drive! Let's remove the optical drive! Let's remove the keyboard! I can't believe we're acutally being paid for this!)

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    1. Re:And that is the difference... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Apple is a douche firm and should be classified as such

      Fixed that for you.

    2. Re:And that is the difference... by girlintraining · · Score: 1, Funny

      Apple is a design firm and should be classified as such

      Apple's designs should be put on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'

      42.

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    3. Re:And that is the difference... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Don't smear the good name of douches with the likes of Apple!

  3. Re:Research by blind+monkey+3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll claim prior art

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  4. THREE dimensions? by Metasquares · · Score: 4, Funny

    As if two weren't enough.

  5. Leopard is dead; long live Snow Leopard by tepples · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apple's designs should be put on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'

    Don't you mean "Beware of the Snow Leopard?" They changed the sign last August.

    10.6.

  6. Re:Research by girlintraining · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll claim prior art

    And how will you do that, if you can't speak, Mr. Anderson?

    Sincerely,

    HP Legal Department

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  7. Re:Research by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Once HP figures out a way to make sure that they won't work if either the black cartridge or the combined color cartridge are empty, Memristors will be ready for commerical release...