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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Adding to what james_parker wrote, it seems there would be no point to hold to ram/hdd dichotomy at all with this new technology...since apparently there's not that much point as it would seem to do it already, if one would believe Varnish HTTP accelerator website
http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/ArchitectNotes
(since I definatelly can't be described as CS-anything, I can't really judge...other than what is under this link sounds at least resonable to me)
BTW, nice to know that HP actually is still also a research company (I thought they became just another Dell some time ago...)