HP's "Memristor" Could Replace Transistors

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[citation][nom]ptroen[/nom]If this gets patented like rambus then perhaps nobody will be interested.[/citation]
Agreed. I seriously doubt that would happen however.

Anyways, I expect this to become mainstream for CPUs in 5-10 years.
 
[citation][nom]tirinim[/nom]hmm, memristors are discovered in 2008?http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/apr-jun/memristor.html[/citation]
Appearently "rather quick" is still much longer than 10 years. Either that or the technology was abandoned. Ideas anyone?
 
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could this be the first good thing from hp, ever? my first few hp's tell me otherwise.
 
[citation][nom]tirinim[/nom]hmm, memristors are discovered in 2008?http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/apr-jun/memristor.html[/citation]
That is correct, however according to BBC they just created the "working" stuff recently:
Researchers at computer firm Hewlett Packard (HP) have shown off working devices built using memristors - often described as electronics' missing link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8609885.stm
 

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Speech recognition and AI has never been a problem of technology. No amount of speed or capacity can compensate for the simple fact that science still does not understand how our minds "work." Both require the understanding of context; it's not just an exercise in brute force resolution of pattern matches and decision trees. This claim gets rehashed every couple of years and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
 

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I'm having a real difficult time imagining software that can make use of a CPU (or RAM) composed of switches with more than two possible values.
 

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As cool as C3PO is, I do not want to have a bunch of whiny robots running around talking about being doomed and bragging about abilities...
 
[citation][nom]dreamphantom_1977[/nom]This is old news- "Published: May 1, 2008". I knew I read this somewhere before, scientific america I think. When I clicked on the link they posted, it shows the publishing date right at the top of each page. Proving my theory that Toms is running out of articles. Starting to look through old news. LOL.[/citation]

Please see post by Shadow. They only created the working stuff recently.
 

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Nothing like a vague description, I was looking to see a structural diagram with doping levels and their material construction that can sustain saturation when no base current is flowing. Unless this is just another name for Zram(sounds like it anyways) technology that I read about 3-4 years ago in which this is not really a new concept and just a combination of a transistor and a capacitor as a single device and doesn't retain memory when off.
 
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