HP Reveals Memristor Breakthrough HP scientists said they have
uncovered the chemistry of what happens inside a memristor while
it is being deployed Hewlett-Packard Labs research scientists on
16 May reported a new breakthrough in their continuing
development of memristors – next-generation memory that some
industry people see as an eventual replacement for NAND flash
and DRAM storage. A memristor, basically a resistor with memory,
apparently has more capabilities than anybody expected. HP Labs
has previously reported discovering that a memristor can perform
logic, potentially enabling computation to be performed in chips
where data is stored. This could mean a radical change in the
way future IT is designed and built. HP scientists reported in
the 16 May edition of the journal “Nanotechnology” that they
have figured out the chemistry of what actually happens inside a
memristor while it is being deployed. Up until now this had been
mostly a mystery. Although HP is confident it will eventually
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