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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. Re:And that is the difference... by beaverbrother · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apple is a design firm and should be classified as such

  2. Forget replacing only RAM by patlabor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is a really big deal. Since our brains work in much the same way as an array of memristors, this brings the possibility of an artificial brain (and perhaps artificial intelligence) much closer to reality.

    Maybe I will live to see Data in my lifetime.