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Originally Posted by JesseK
Insta-on-off memory locations would mean longer battery life for ... nearly everything these days, from phones to laptops to digital media. With memory that keeps its value after power loss, this would be possible. If it is truly as simple as the article makes it sounds, the whole power savings would be much more efficient since it's faster than doing it with something like flash memory.
Eventually someone will apply the mathematical model to some obscure idea and BAM a brand new technology will be born. It's like the guys in that article (and other articles found on this) have a small vision, but there are much broader implications for this. I wonder how HP will release/license this.
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Great find dtengineering!
I'm trying to figure out how exactly you would go about using this for memory... the premise of this device is that it's resistance changes as a charge flows through it, so I can understand how you could 'store' data in a memrister, but how do you retrieve it? You'd have to apply a voltage to the memrister to develop a voltage drop and discover how much resistance exists accross the memrister, but inhearantly wouldn't that distort the value stored within the memrister?
Well, of course I'm thinking like you're going to use these in an analog state (each memrister being able to store many values) but I suppose you could just run them in a maximum resistance/minimum resistance only type setup, in which case it's much less likely reading the resistance would entirely destroy the value in the memrister, though as you read data out you would have to 'restore' the value after each read.
Maybe I'm missing something... gosh I wish I already had gone to college and had my EE degree.
As far as licensing/selling goes... you can bet it'll be astronomically priced for the first few years.
-q
p.s. Team numbers in everyday places: look when JesseK last edited.
