tag: memristors

  • Memristors will be here…. in a flash!

    By Massimiliano Versace | April 16, 2010

    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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  • Robotics and memristors

    By Massimiliano Versace | February 20, 2010

    Patrick Cox is the author of a very interesting article on Contrarianprofits.com. In the post, Cox makes the case that the time is ripe for large-scale adoption of robotics in both civilian and military applications.The latter is old news: in previous posts, we looked at the growing opportunities, and concerns, of robotic applications in dangerous (or dangerously boring) domains. Read the rest of this entry »

  • Greg Snider talk on memristors

    By Massimiliano Versace | December 26, 2009

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    I came across a series of videos on Youtube of the 2008 UC Berkeley Synposium on memristors. As many of you know by now, Leon Chua published a seminal paper in 1971 on the missing basic circuit element, and in 1976, along with Sung-Mo Kang, he published another paper describing a large class of devices and systems they called memristive devices. Read the rest of this entry »

  • The Business Landscape for Memristor Electronics

    By Massimiliano Versace | December 9, 2009

    hp-memristorMemristors is not a solo business. In a recent SyNAPSE-centric meeting, Robert Thijs Kozma brought up a very interesting post on the rapidly changing business landscape of memristors. A number of companies beyond Hewlett Packard, including AMD, Axon Technologies, Energy Conversion Devices, Micron Technologies, Samsung, and Sharp have been very active in researching, and patenting, memristor-based devices. An excellent outlook of the business and patent landscape around variations on the memristor theme can be found here.