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| wierdo |
Posted: January 10, 2009 01:15 pm
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What do you guys think about the new memristor that HP created?
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| IDW |
Posted: February 03, 2009 11:49 pm
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Could you enlighten us as to what exactly a memristor is please?
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| wierdo |
Posted: March 03, 2009 06:04 pm
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It's a new electrical component that can "remember" how much electricity has passed through it. There's an article on PC World if I can find it...
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| wierdo |
Posted: March 03, 2009 06:07 pm
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Ok here you go:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/152683-2/future_tech.html That article doesn't just talk about the memristor. It also goes into details of other cool advanced technology. -------------------- |
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| IDW |
Posted: March 03, 2009 06:08 pm
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Ahh, so a resistor that can store its previously applied electrical state? I definitely see the benefits of this. One use would be to develope a new type of RAM. Program the OS to shut down in it's current state, and the RAM would hold that state indefinitely. Turning on the computer would result in instant OS boot as if it was never shut off.
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| wierdo |
Posted: March 03, 2009 06:37 pm
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Yes. That's what I've heard they were hoping for. These things are also TINY. I think I read that they were about 6-7 nanometers big. So these things have the potential to create handheld computers that turns on immediately.
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