memristors

HP, Hynix team on flash memory replacement

Hewlett-Packard is sitting on a new kind of technology that may one day replace flash memory, but has yet to mass produce it. That appears about to change.

HP has chosen Hynix to manufacture the once-theoretical circuit technology known as a memristor, the companies plan to announce Tuesday.

Together HP and Seoul-based Hynix will develop the memristor and sell it commercially as a new memory technology called ReRAM, or resistive random access memory. The first products will be available in anywhere from three to five years, according to R. Stanley Williams, the director of HP Labs' Information and Quantum Systems … Read more

HP research could yield faster, more powerful PCs

A new discovery by HP could lead to faster, more powerful computers and other devices in the near future.

Hewlett-Packard's HP Labs research branch has discovered that the memristor, a new electric circuit developed by HP in 2008, has far greater potential than initially thought, the company announced on Thursday.

Previously seen mostly as a new type of storage similar to flash memory, HP found that the memristor can also perform its own logic. Such a discovery can pave the way for chips that can both perform calculations and hold data, potentially eliminating the need for a traditional core … Read more

Flexible memory developed for chips

A flexible memristor has been developed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, opening the door to new memory technologies.

It is the first time this kind of memory device, demonstrated for the first time last year, has been shown in flexible form.

The memristor (from "memory resistor") was made by setting titanium oxide, one of the common ingredients of sunscreen and toothpaste, onto flexible transparent polymer sheets, NIST announced Tuesday. By adding electrical contacts the NIST research team created a flexible memory switch that operates on fewer than 10 volts, maintains its memory when … Read more

Buzz Out Loud 717: Dedicated to yo' fat momma

Yo' momma is so fat. How fat is she? She's so fat she has two Wiis, one for each...OK, never mind. In other news, Microsoft walked out on Yahoo. Is it for good this time? What does it mean for you? (As usual, a big fat nothing, unless you're a Yahoo stockholder.) Also, on the deathwatch today: E3, Cuba's ban on home computers, and Google audio CAPTCHA. Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 717

MicroHoo is dead, long live MicroHoo http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9935100-56.html http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9935250-7.html http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080505/ yahoo-execs-reaction-i-need-some-prozac/ … Read more

Buzz Out Loud 715: Fork the Pidgin

As in, stick a fork in the Pidgin forking controversy, because it's forking ridiculous. Also, iTunes Store gets same-day DVD releases and memristors make their debut. In other news, we do get a whiff of vapor, but the possibilities for the new Sezmi set-top box have us pretty fired up, nevertheless. Listen now: Download today's podcast EPISODE 715

iTunes Store gets same-day DVD releases http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080501-apple-itunes-store-now-gets-films-for-purchase-same-day-as-dvd.html

HP reports big advance in memory chip design http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7377063.stm http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/technology/01chip.html? em&ex=1209787200&en=c4345e5bcda95925&ei=5087%0A … Read more