BBC Focus Magazine

[M Paul Lloyd]

This looks interesting, although I will admit when I first heard of them I thought 'that'l never work' but apparently they do.

Electronics giant HP has joined the world's second-largest memory chip maker Hynix to manufacture a novel member of the electronics family.
The deal will see "memristors" - first demonstrated by HP in 2006 - mass produced for the first time.
Memristors promise significantly greater memory storage requiring less energy and space, and may eventually also be employed in processors.
HP says the first memristors should be widely available in about three years.
The devices started as a theoretical prediction in 1971 but HP's demonstration and publication of a real working device has put them on a possible roadmap to replace memory chips or even hard drives.
They are considered to be the "missing link" in electronics, a fourth element to supplement the more familiar resistor, capacitor and inductor that together form the basis of every electronic device yet made.
In short, it is a resistor with memory: applying an electric voltage can change how much the device blocks electric current - and memristors can "remember" that level - even when the power is turned off.
That makes it a candidate for memory that requires little energy to store information - like the current standard for non-volatile memory, Flash.
"Memristor memory chips promise to run at least 10 times faster and use 10 times less power than an equivalent Flash memory chip," said Stan Williams, the HP Fellow who first demonstrated the memristor, in a statement by the firm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11165087

[The Beige Avenger]

very cool.

[Shadowwolf]

Ahh like this one

http://www.bbcfocusmagazine.com/forum/new-computer-memory-to-emulate-the-brain-t1111.html

[M Paul Lloyd]

Ah! Yes, well, no then...... I knew I had seen it somewhere before.