HP shows off first hybrid memristor-transistor chip
By Donald Melanson 
posted Nov 25th 2008 6:24PM
posted Nov 25th 2008 6:24PM
HP broke some considerable new ground by creating the very first "memristor" earlier this year, but it looks like it didn't rest on its laurels for very long, as it has now also taken the wraps off the first hybrid memristor-transistor chip at (where else?) the inaugural Memristor and Memristor Systems Symposium. According to the researchers at HP Labs, the memristors are able to do the job of the transistors they replace more efficiently, letting you use less of them when space is a priority, or the same amount or, conceivably, more of 'em to get some increased performance, which the researchers say could "give Moore's Law a boost." As if that wasn't enough, the researchers also say that memristors could also allow for faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient flash storage, and allow for field-programmable gate array (or FPGAs) that are not only more efficient, but considerably less expensive as well. Of course, there's plenty more experimenting that needs to be done, but HP says that the first commercial circuits using memristors could arrive within the next three years.[Via Slashdot]
That'll go swell with my argyle sweater-vest.
ha looks like a tiled windows 95 background
FPGAs will rule the earth and the gates of heaven
Umm. FPGAs already do...
Of course they do :)
more mediocre than memorizing
funny, i just thought the same thing about your comment.
I love Symposia!
I love Futurama!
I thought it was an article about a new Windows background
Sooo bummed that I couldn't score tickets to the Memristor and Memristor Systems Symposium.
I hate having to wait for new technology. I hope these things really do help in future technology.
In the future we will be able to print any device/part we want/need.
But will it blend?
No, it won't.
If this means RAM memory (like DDR of all kinds) becoming energy-independent (so I can turn off/on my PC within a few seconds), or SSDs hitting the same retail price as HDDs per GB, this makes me happy.
But something makes me think I won't be happy with HP's memristors... or their prices.
Im pretty sure i read in pcworld that these chips would make ram unnecessary to even have.
Is this the chip Sarah Conner paid 1/2 million for from the Yakuza?
Yes.... yes it is....
Hahaha, I wonder how VHDL code will have to change (or in this case already has) in order to accommodate for Memristor logic and simplifications.
First, you should be using SystemVerilog, not VHDL. Second, why would a transistor (or, more accurately, memristor) level technology have any effect at the RTL level? It should all be hidden under the technology cell level.
Here's a random thought/ something to do with all those chips:
A new Turing Test: getting (a certain ratio of) "Highly Rated" Engadet comments.
Thoughts?
"(where else?) "...
The next step will be to create the Al Gore's "MenBearPig" that show up on south Park...
Well, may be not, but maybe a transistor that works with Laser ligth instear ot electrons. that would be much faster and will use a lot less power.
Memristors are the most important technological breakthroughs for computing in the past 20 years.
The computers we have right now are essentially just much faster versions of the same exact architecture used since the first integrated circuit.
Memristors can make instant on computing devices that remember everything in memory when there is no power. They also work much faster than flash memory and can be packed in a greater density while also being cheaper to produce.