MEMRISTOR

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MEMRISTOR

• By Eric Moreno

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Overview

• What is it?
• What does it do?
• What impact will it have?
• When will it be available?

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What is it?

• Electrical circuit designed in 1971
• A concentration of memory resistors
• Could not be given a physical form
• HP finally created the first Memristor.
• 9 nanometers in size

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What does it do?

• Can remember how much current has gone through it
  
• Will save its electronic state when power is off.
• It will remember exactly what it was doing before
  it was turned off
• Software will not need to load each time

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What impact will it have?

• Memristors will be Cheaper, Faster and be able to
  hold more memory density than flash memory.
• By remembering its electrical state it could
  replace RAM in the future.
• Make computers more affordable, smaller and more
  powerful.
• Researchers believe its the start for computers
  to start making decisions and learning.

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When will it be aveilable?

• Memristors could be used in technology as soon as
  2012 replacing flash memory.
• They believe that it could replace DRAMs by 2014
  and maybe Hard Disk by 2016.
• For a full analog computer based on Memristors it
  could take up to 20 years.

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References

• http//www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/04/scientists-
  prov/
• http//www.pcworld.com/article/152683-2/15_hot_new
  _technologies_that_will_change_everything.html
• http//www.memristor.org/reference/research/13/wha
  t-are-memristors

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Questions