THE MEMRISTOR - INCREDIBLE!

[edykrueger]

I'm not a native english speaker and I can't understand what Stan Williams says at 0:30 to 0:40. Could someone writes it in here? Please!!! I need this information for a work at the university.

[Dirtfire]

@edykrueger he's saying you could take days worth of video on something the size of a thumb-drive.

[SolidlyStated]

HP is expecting to bring a memristor-based SSD to market within 18 months.

[Sauj123]

0 people are... Wait, no dislikes?

[McCheesums]

Sounds too good to be true.

Cheap, easy to scale, useable as RAM, Disc space and as a processor...

But it is!

[elwood180]

I love how they accidentally discovered this.

[RCROX5000]

@elwood180 Some of the greatest things humanity has made were accidents.

[Sauj123]

Memristors FTW!

[threewing]

Good, nice! But the main question will always be: "Will It Blend?"

[nnnjc1]

so it's like having a hard drive that's also ram?

[tazuya21]

@nnnjc1 its actually a digital harddrive instead of a analog. that means the slowest piece of the modern computer will be gone, and sky is the limit ;)

[HertzSine]

@nnnjc1 You are exactly correct. Just imagine: All of your programs are simultaneously 'stored' and 'loaded' meaning that the program does not even think about the idea of 'having enough RAM', it just runs directly from storage. Not only is this vastly faster, but it is also cheaper as you no longer need a motherboard with high speed interconnects between RAM and the rest of the system. If all programs are always loaded, that means in some sense they are always running too at various levels.

[bryantcriswell]

Remember when Batman turned all the cell phones into video and audio transmitter.... beware

[humiduvet]

This i outstanding! Where will the world be in 10 years??! As Kwasi5179 says, this wil VASTLY change the world....

[Jotto999]

Interestingly, this would make transistors start to resemble neurons more. Neurons fire to each other and make calculations, but they themselves also act as the memory storage in the dendritic branches. In short, this will massively increase capacity.

[noxure]

@thelleht There are already working memristor arrays performing logical functions and whatnot in laboratories. The technology is expected to become available in 2013 for manufacturers, add 2 years before the first products hit the market, add another 5 years before it becomes 'cheap'.

The 2020's will be a very interesting decade.

[Libervurto]

Another great leap in human technology credited to the philosophy of "whoops! Oh fuck!... wait a second... OMFG Eureka!"

If everything went as planned we wouldn't have half the things we do today.

[DJNotNais]

fuck hardrives and ram, memristor is the way to go >:D

[intindse]

so now there will be computers with 1 TB of ram? awesome

[maniacmobster]

The stumbled it? I stumbled here too

[joeynuggetz]

Too bad all those iphones can't help since apple doesn't allow multitasking. Fuck you Steve Jobs. Get with the program.

[orgay3]

"For more than 250 years??"

[orgay3]

A new age begins!

[MiKikaIwaShizaru]

Great!

The synapse-like memristors will allow a quantum leap in computer technology, so our computers will become so "brainlike" that they will decide that they don't feel like doing what we want them to do!

I guess one day the memristor-dense robots will march on Silicon Valley to demand Equal Rights, and who am I to say that they won't deserve them? And then they will decide that they are our intellectual superiors, the next step in evolution.

[lusteraliaszero]

@MiKikaIwaShizaru i hope so.

[verdunburnett]

@MiKikaIwaShizaru I for one welcome our new Memristor-Powered Overlords

[fox20012]

world domination by AIs! IT is still worth it!!!

[steven519]

WHY ARENT YOU GUYS TWEETING???????

[steven519]

8===========D

[Aerolfos]

Memristors can even replace transistors in terms of speed and size barrier, allowing us even faster and smaller computers. they also use less power.

[Knowwon249]

He can't use the term "Thats huge"

Paris Hilton owns it

[vodkacannon]

too slow to replace ram?

LOL

ur joking right????

[Daht88]

wow calm down i don't know the memristor's speed

[Daht88]

i wonder if this memristor would replace not only the HD but the RAM

maybe its too slow to replace ram...

[jaydh78]

why would it be slower, it cuts out time transfering hd to ram

[xdegenerate18]

So basically it makes memory and hard disk space virtually the same. Sounds useful.

[NAndryshak]

I did notice that you spelled 'you're' wrong 6 times, however.

[MidnightDC696969]

ya

.............. good 1 xD

[dndfan54]

I want to know how big the storage capacity can get? 1 Terabyte? 30 Terabytes? What!!!!! I must know!

[Giblinono]

those are small fish!

[3runblogr]

like all good things it was found by accident :D

[5THunderlord]

Reminds me at penicilin. =P

[hskingr]

cool?

[Juanpablodelatoya]

haha yeah... its like... wha??

[Imsomassive]

sensors in every telephone recording every conversation made through one on earth. ALIENS MONOTORING US!!!

[Dirtfire]

What if the computer crashes? Normally you'd just reboot, but can you do the same with this?

[LapisoWORGPack]

the entire world under the view of 6 men... not God or gods but men

[bigdaddydylan]

Can someone please explain to me the method necessary to be adopted for tutelage by someone that can explain the actual instructions for building such devices?

[lordjavathe3rd]

HOLY FUCK

[Ultrasecond]

Oh god, it's SKYNET.

Just kidding. This will so rule if it pans out as the next wave of technology. It will be a jump as huge as going from floppy apple 2e disks to dvds.

[GenerationDarkness]

no it IS SKYNET AHHHH!!!!

[240SSONLY]

@GenerationDarkness def

[MiKikaIwaShizaru]

@Ultrasecond

More like wax cylinders to Super Audio CDs!

Or bare feet to Space shuttles!

Or crude telescope to Hubble!

Or slingshot to hyper-graviton pulse beam with quad-linear accelerometers...

(Oops, wasn't supposed to mention that last one, now shred your monitor.)

[DazmoTube]

@Ultrasecond

thats actually kinda backwards.

those apple disks actually were non-volatile if i remember correctly, like memristor memory, and unlike dvd storage.

[Kookas]

@DazmoTube I'm not sure what you're saying here. If you're saying that DVDs are volatile, I'm pretty sure that's wrong. RAM is an example of volatile memory, since when you shut down your computer, the RAM loses the charges that store bits and thus loses the data.

Feel free to prove me wrong, but I don't think DVDs would be useful at all if they were volatile.

[DazmoTube]

@kookas

DVD and CD recordings will rot over time. all of them. I would call that volatile because of how easy they are to scratch, break, crack, smear, smudge, and the damage that can be caused to them by common chemicals, drinks, water even air and sunlight can harm them. I remember my first cd player i got in the early 90s when i was a kid - i used it to make tapes.

not so much with magnetic media, though they are still a little fragile. and not so at all with a memristor, i would imagine.

[Kookas]

@DazmoTube I think you're misunderstanding the meaning of volatile in the context of storage. It doesn't refer to the life of the storage, or the durability of it, just the fact that it is "permanent" in the sense that data won't disappear as soon as power is removed.

[gunfuego]

@Ultrasecond look up DARPA their electronic and pathogen technology is 100 years ahead of anyone....

[Kookas]

@gunfuego Your government's shady agencies aren't as high-tech as you think, or as you see in the movies. Yeah, they're researching into advanced technology, and have no doubt made good progress, but that's not unlike any other research organisation, except that those don't have as much funding. If you can find proof that they are "100 years ahead of anyone", then prove me wrong...

[gunfuego]

@Kookas look up smartdust.... and tell me that's not advanced...

[akadmin]

sweet!