Linked by David Adams on Fri 9th May 2008 21:44 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems 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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My comment
by Punktyras on Fri 9th May 2008 23:15 UTC
Punktyras
Member since:
2006-01-07

It smells like revolution ["re-v&-'lü-sh&n]
We live in wonderfull ['w&n-d&r-f&l] times, aren't we?

RE: My comment
by sbergman27 on Fri 9th May 2008 23:32 in reply to "My comment"
sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

I'm keeping my skeptic (Skep"tic) hat on until we actually see this in retail devices. That said, it does look exciting (Ex*cit"ing). ;-)

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RE[2]: My comment
by hobgoblin on Sat 10th May 2008 06:28 in reply to "RE: My comment"
hobgoblin Member since:
2005-07-06

yep, its probably one of those 5-10 years techs thats been showing up en mass lately...

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