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"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."
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“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” - Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez
Will it be as fast as DDR3? I'll say one thing for this stuff, it could make a big difference in power usage. I'd be willing to turn my PC off more frequently.
This is non-volatile memory, so no it's not a replacement for RAM. It's a replacement for flash memory. Potentially it could make solid state hard drives much more affordable and practical.
Flash memory wears out. In theory memristors should not, and should be much faster and cheaper.
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“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” - Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez
