But what exactly does this mean for you and me??Obviously other than more stuff for engineering students to study about!!
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.In short that means all your devices from your PC's to your Ipods to your cellphones will have more reliable memory.Researchers believe that the memristor, or memory resistor, might become a useful tool for keeping the computer industry on pace to satisfy Moore's law, the exponential growth in processing power every 18 months.Memristors could very well replace transistors on PC motherboards( with devices called crossbar latches) and memory with nearly 7 times more bit density....That means smaller area occupied per unit memory unit.
However HP have themselves admitted that the speed of memristors is currently 1/10th of existing DRAM .
Its been recently claimed that Samsung has also developed Memristors.
Lets keep our fingers crossed and hope that memristors are incorporated into devices in the near future.
Definitely updates will be provided as new developments happen in this field.
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