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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2005-11-13
A device with the density of a hard drive (hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes), and the speed of dram, we could potentially assign some space for working memory (now named ram) and the rest for "storage".
Think of this:
For normal everyday use, we "only" dedicate 4 or 8 gb for "ram".
Today we are going to work with HD video, so we use 32gb of free space as "ram", and the rest of the device as storage.
Or even better, the "storage" is fast enough that we don't need to have "ram" in the middle.
Edited 2008-05-02 00:09 UTC