[tex]

Wow...

Maintaining Moore's law with new memristor circuits

EETimes.com - 'Missing link' memristor created: Rewrite the textbooks?

Big, big deal.

[thadood]

Oshit!

[mistawiskas]

I just read up on that this AM. Cool shit!

[Jackalope]

n electrical circuit theory, the memristor is a passive circuit element. It is sometimes also known as a flux capacitor

Fucking awesome!

Where are we going Doc?

We're going Back...To the Future!

(but kidding aside this sucks for me, because I just finished almost all of my instrumentation/electrical fundamentals classes)

[djsoulriot]

Whats this mean in English?

[fornik8her]

"By running current through the device, we can push oxygen vacancies from the layer that has them into the layer that does not, thereby changing its resistance by a factor of 1000 or even more, thus switching the memristor 'on,' then by reversing the current we can move the vacancies back into the first layer, thereby switching the memristor 'off'."

cool stuff

[tictac]

Nice.

[smirnoff]

So it's just a smaller, cooler transistor is that right?

[mistawiskas]

Transistors with buit-in memory capabilities.

[Juballharshaw]

Originally Posted by djsoulriot

Whats this mean in English?

It means there's a real possibility that future computers wouldn't have a hard drive or solid-state drive but RAM that doesn't lose what's store when you turn off the power.

[smirnoff]

Could any give an example of how this would improve things? Like what a future computer could do? I takes me time to wrap my head around any new technology.

[j0k3r]

This circuitry was pretty much never supposed to exist. It was purely theoretical and someone made it work. This is very big news.

[tex]

Originally Posted by j0k3r

This circuitry was pretty much never supposed to exist. It was purely theoretical and someone made it work. This is very big news.

It was supposed to exist, just no one had ever created one. The theory behind it (late 60s I think) was going at the problem the wrong way.

[sims]

So what type of technological advancements do you guys forsee because of this?

[Juballharshaw]

Originally Posted by Juballharshaw

It means there's a real possibility that future computers wouldn't have a hard drive or solid-state drive but RAM that doesn't lose what's store when you turn off the power.

Originally Posted by smirnoff

Could any give an example of how this would improve things? Like what a future computer could do? I takes me time to wrap my head around any new technology.

Originally Posted by sims

So what type of technological advancements do you guys forsee because of this?

I'm beginning to think the Canadians have me on ignore.

[thadood]

LOL. Nice one!

[sims]

I was looking for some other examples

if its as big of a deal as people are making it out to be it should be revolutionizing more then just ram and harddrives.

edit- ignoring american's is how we as canadians define ourselfs :P

[pk_volt]

Originally Posted by j0k3r

This circuitry was pretty much never supposed to exist. It was purely theoretical and someone made it work. This is very big news.

hm, the article states that they used this device for oxygen sensors. This is what the whole mermistor functionality is based on.

[mistawiskas]

Originally Posted by sims

I was looking for some other examples

if its as big of a deal as people are making it out to be it should be revolutionizing more then just ram and harddrives.

edit- ignoring american's is how we as canadians define ourselfs :P

How about totally eliminating boot-up? push a botton and instant on, right where you left off, no more forgetting to save your work! Faster than your television.

[Goofus Maximus]

It's not a transistor, but a resistor with a special ability to "remember" the amount of charge that has passed through it, changing it's resistance accordingly. It's been known about in the theoretical sense for a while now, but nobody's actually been able to MAKE one before.