Linked by David Adams on Fri 9th May 2008 21:44 UTC
Today's NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday radio program discussed the recent Memristor advances for the non-Electrical Engineer: "The possibility of such a circuit element, known as the "memristor," was first described in 1971, but no one was able to find a device with the properties of that missing element. Now, a group of scientists at HP Labs has found that in nanoscale materials, the "memristance" property becomes easier to see. The finding could lead to lower power, instant-on computers, as well as novel types of circuitry. HP Senior Fellow Stanley Williams, one of the discoverers of the modern memristor, talks about the find and its potential applications." The 13 minute program is available online
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2006-01-16
I head the Science Friday NPR where this was discussed, but I think the EETimes article from about a week earlier was much more interesting:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=2074...
I think that in ten years, computers will no longer have memory or harddrives, but rather that everything will be stored using these memristors that will provide the functionality of both and will probably be embedded right on the CPU chip. Not to mention that there are lots and lots of transistors in computers and electronics that this little element can replace.
It will be cool when your system is completely booted even though it's off...