Monday, June 1st, 2009
Nanotechnology is likely to have a big impact to the non-volatile memory market in the next few years as the further scalabilty of flash memory becomes more difficult. One interesting solution developed by Hewlett Packard last year is the memristor, a nanoscale circuit element theoretically proposed in 1971 but only recently realized. The memristor ...
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Last year researchers at Hewlett-Packard published a paper in Nature noting a link between materials used for a new type of non-volatile memory called RRAM and the theory of the memristor- a theoretical circuit element originally predicted in 1971 by UC Berkeley professor Leon Chua. The HP researchers demonstrated an increase in ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Last month a symposium was held at UC Berkeley on a new type of nanoscale circuit element called the memristor which could have a big impact in areas such as non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing. Youtube has video of the conference available here and a six minute primer available here.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
The memristor was listed by TIME magazine as one of the top inventions of 2008 and could revolutionize non-volatile memory by replacing transistor based memory cells with a new type of nanoscale resistance switch. In addition, there has been some speculation that the memristor may be a key ingredient to a ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Last week researchers at Hewlett-Packard indicated that their nanoscale crossbar arrays may see commercialization as early as next year in ultra high density non-volatile memory. While the initial research into nanoscale crossbar technology was performed by Stan Williams and Phil Kuekes in the late 1990's, the recent discovery of the "memristor" characterized as ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Last week several news sources including the New York Times and CBS News, as well as various popular science journals including Scientific American and EETimes, reported on the May 1 publication in Nature by Hewlett Packard scientists describing the discovery of the "memristor", a fourth fundamental circuit element after the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Typically passive electronic components are divided into three categories - resistors, capacitors, and inductors. According to this recent article in EETimes, a fourth passive component referred to as a "Memristor" was discovered by Stanley Williams group at Hewlett Packard. The material for this new component is taught to be based ...
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