Memristor Based RAM Could Be Out By 2009

neural.disruption writes "According to the EETimes, HP is announcing that it 'plans to unveil RRAM prototype chips based on memristors with crossbar arrays in 2009.' I don't know if you remember the earlier story about HP Labs proving the existence of the Memristor that had been predicted in 1971 by Leon Chua, and has the nice property of maintaining a memory of the current that passes by it. This could bring us a new type of small non-volatile high-speed RAM at low cost because of the low complexity of the mechanism employed."

non-volatile high-speed RAM...

[oneal13rru]

well, I'm certainly glad my RAM will stop exploding inside my PC on a daily basis... driving me insane!!!

Re:Flash Killer

[Stanistani]

I'm still holding out for isolinear chips.

Patents

[tobiasly]

I'm sure it's already patented by Rambus.

Re:Security Concerns

[Anonymous Coward]

> I have an idea: grow a few seconds' worth of patience.

How about grow fuck yourself.

Re:Security Concerns

[mcmonkey]

For reference's sake...

I'd mod you up, but I can't find "+1 Get off my lawn"

Re:Security Concerns

[merreborn]

We get this pipe dream every few years - people talking about the "instant-on" computer. Sleep modes, wake modes, hibernation, etc.

I have an idea: grow a few seconds' worth of patience.

Hear, hear! I don't even know why they bothered developing processors after the 386, or anything faster than 1200 baud modems. They worked fine, it's just these damn kids were too impatient to wait 15 hours to download 50 megs, or 3 hours to render a single frame of Doom 3.

Now they want computers to boot faster? I happen to *like* the fact that it takes 15 minutes to get Vista up and running. Gives me a chance to take a nap, or brew some coffee.

Great!

[Datamonstar]

I need more RRRAM in my PPPowerBook!