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HP Backs Memristor Mass Production
neo12 writes with news that Hewlett-Packard is teaming with Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest producer of memory chips, to mass produce memristors for the first time. Quoting the BBC:
"HP says the first memristors should be widely available in about three years. The devices started as a theoretical prediction in 1971 but HP's demonstration and publication of a real working device has put them on a possible roadmap to replace memory chips or even hard drives. ... Steve Furber, professor of computer engineering at the University of Manchester, explained that the potential benefits lie in the fact that memristors are 'much simpler in principle than transistors. Because they are formed as a film between two wires, they don't have to be implanted into the silicon surface — as do transistors, which form the storage locations in Flash — so they could be built in layers in 3D,' he told BBC News. 'Of course, the devil is in the detail, and I don't think the manufacturing challenges have been fully exposed yet.'"
Up until recently the memristor was a theoretical fundamental circuit element (like resistor, capacitor and inductor - but the are easy to create in the real world). A few years ago they were actually created and there is a lot of interesting things you can do with the technology
For more info see The mysterious memristor
Or just search Google memristor ieee
Dude, people who can take 5 seconds to Google something that's really easy to find wouldn't be asking dumbass questions on Slashdot.
Better to point them to something like Just Fucking Google It. Like the author of that site says, "the popularity of this site just blows my mind". There are a lot of lazy helpless people. They're sort of like trolls -- don't feed them. If you feed them by typing obvious keywords into well-known search engines for them, it only encourages them.
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