Researchers at HP Labs have proven the existence of the “memristor,” a component of electrical circuits that could lead to computer systems with memories that never forget, the company announced Wednesday. The memristor — short for “memory resistor” — was previously only theorized to be the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. In the April 30 edition of the journal Nature, however, HP researchers presented both a mathematical model and a physical example of one.
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HP Breakthrough Could Spawn Computers That Don’t Forget
Posted by: Katherine Noyes May 1, 2008 10:49 AMResearchers at HP Labs have proven the existence of the “memristor,” a component of electrical circuits that could lead to computer systems with memories that never forget, the company announced Wednesday. The memristor — short for “memory resistor” — was previously only theorized to be the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. In the April 30 edition of the journal Nature, however, HP researchers presented both a mathematical model and a physical example of one.