Wednesday, June 3, 2009

"HP Reveals Memristor, The Fourth Passive Circuit Element"

HP recently released information about their perfection of the theorized fourth circuitry element. Up until this discovery, the three primary elements were resistors, capacitors, and inductors. This Memristor as it is called, would allow information to be stored and picked right back up where you left it when the computer is turned off. It stores the current in it and by changing its resistance maintains memory of data. What this means is much less lost data because it is stored in exactly the same place as when power was lost.

This product will also speed up computer even further because this technology actually improves as it scales down. Unlike transistors there is no extra heat when scaled down in size. Also HP has tested the amount of memory these can store, which was roughly 100 gbits on a single die, while currently used flash memory chips is around 16 gbits.

I was amazed when i found this article about this new technology. I am impressed and can not wait til this technology goes mainstream. This will revolutionize the memory systems for computers. I can not see any faults so far in this technology. I have got to hand it to HP for this ground-breaking discovery of theres.

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