Memristor revolution backed by HP (BBC)

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By Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News

Electronics giant HP has joined the world's second-largest memory chip maker Hynix to manufacture a novel member of the electronics family.

The deal will see "memristors" - first demonstrated by HP in 2006 - mass produced for the first time.

Memristors promise significantly greater memory storage requiring less energy and space, and may eventually also be employed in processors.

HP says the first memristors should be widely available in about three years.

The devices started as a theoretical prediction in 1971 but HP's demonstration and publication of a real working device has put them on a possible roadmap to replace memory chips or even hard drives.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11165087




Cool, but "memristors" is a touch awkwardnessful ... how about programable resistors = presistors?