One of the main motivation of the Neurdon blog is to shed light on the true innovative force behind the introduction of new computing paradigms based on the nervous system functioning. This is why when neurdons read the word cat associated with large-scale simulations, we get a little sad… readers should know that the greatest revolution that will see AI and the semiconductor industry jointly turn upside down our current use of intelligent machines has nothing to do with a bunch of cats. Though, according to PHYSORG article “Cat brain: A step toward the electronic equivalent”, the pinnacle of memristor-based computer evolution will be a cat. IBM’s “Max” (no, not Max Versace… apparently my shortened name is widely used to name unaware felines across the globe…) will be in good company. Read the rest of this entry »

According tho this post, HP plans to introduce the first commercial product based on memristor memory in three years. In case you wonder: no, it won’t be a USB brain. According to Technology Review, it will be a flash memory.

Why flash memory? This storage suffer from some of the same limitations that plague silicon transistors: the limited amount of data-writing cycles, and the physical limits that prevent increasing storage in dense memory devices. Memristor memory can withstand up to about a million read-write cycles in lab tests, and can achieve densities unreachable by conventional technologies currently employed to build flash memory devices.

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