In the past few years a lot of attention has been directed to “memristors” as a new type of memory cell and as a new component for neuromorphic electronic designs. However, currently most proposed neuromorphic designs do not yet use the 2-terminal memristive devices promoted by Leon Chua and HP but rather use more conventional electronic circuit components such as the floating gate memory cells used in Flash memory. 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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