New Memristor Makes Low-Cost, High-Density Memory 86
KentuckyFC writes "A group of electronics engineers have discovered that a thin layer of vanadium oxide acts as a memristor, the fourth basic component of circuits after resistors, capacitors, and inductors that was discovered last year. At a critical temperature, a current passing through the layer causes it to change from an insulating state to a metal-like state, thereby changing its resistance (abstract). The effect lasts many hours — which is what makes the layer a memristor (a resistor with memory). The team says this could be scaled up to make resistive random access memory, or RRAM, at very low cost, from little more than layers of vanadium oxide."
Re:Fuse (Score:5, Funny)
Yes. Resistance is fusile.
Re:Not vaporware... (Score:5, Funny)
So, knowing HP, we can expect memristors that need a new cartridge to "refill the memory" every few weeks.
And your initial memsistor will have just a "starter cart" that only accesses 1/4 the data.
And for best performance, you should only use genuine HP Brand electricity.
And random blocks of memory in the memristors won't be accessible under linux. Especially when you try to send data via a wireless connection.
Re:Not vaporware... (Score:3, Funny)
You forgot to mention the HP Memristor (tm) driver software, which despite being about 335 bytes in size, will come bundled in an installed package that is 37MB, just so HP software can show pointless splash screens and randomly create services and daemons that appear to serve no purpose whatsoever, while STILL not being able to cancel the printing of a document without cycling the power.