Linked by David Adams on Thu 1st May 2008 18:47 UTC, submitted by james_parker
First theorized in the 1970's as the fourth basic circuit element, a practical memristor implementation has finally been discovered at HP Labs. If practical manufacturing can be scaled up, memristor technology could become the new standard for computer memory -- memory that combines the speed of DRAM, the persistence of Flash memory, and the bit density of hard drives. In addition, memristors can work as analog as well as digital devices, and hold promise as the basis for building neural networks
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Patents on mechanical/electronic inventions are good. It takes a disgusting amount of time, energy, and equipment to research that stuff. Companies and universities need to be reimbursed for their expense or they'd never be able to research it in the first place.
These are nothing at all like software patents. Aside from software being an algorithm, software changes are a far more rapid pace than electronics and software requires far less investment to innovate with.
This is why I've never gotten on the band wagon with the "anti-patents" movements that far too many programmers push - almost all of whom I'd imagine lack any business or economic sense whatsoever - and instead work with the "anti-software-patents" movements. They're different things entirely.