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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 ArcadeNut · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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

    As if two weren't enough.