Memristors Getting Closer to Ultra-Fast, Brain-Like Computing, Says HP

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By Andrew Moseman
Apr 10, 2010 12:25 AMNov 20, 2019 5:55 AM
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"Memristors" are four decades in the making, but it turns out that this fourth kind of circuit element (beyond the inductor, capacitor, and resistor) might have more potential to change computing than even its creators first believed. In a study this week in Nature, researchers with Hewlett-Packard report that they've achieved "stateful logic" with their memristor, whose name derives from a mashup of "memory" and "resistor."

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