6-Minute Memristor Guide

R. Stanley Williams, whose team discovered the memristor (the fourth fundamental circuit element) gives us a quick whiteboard talk about how the device works.

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[BrokenBjartur]

4:21-23 'whatwhenwmnmwhen we put a negative voltage...'

[HHSWrstlr]

Sure memristors do exactly what transistors do...but they are passive, nonvolatile elements that use less energy and are approx. 1/15 the size of a transistor (3nm vs. 45nm). These are the future of electronics, they will provide us the technology to essentially combine the RAM and HD components of modern computers. As far as reliability goes, HP is in the process of creating a 20GB solid state device the size of a sugar cube...expand your research beyond YouTube

[DavidKazlauskas]

I didn't understand jack shit but I loved every second of it.

[Alex Paulsen]

Yes it does. It's just not available to the public.

[Daniel Tinkov]

so?

[Boryspitzanzx]

by what i mean you need to implement a very high temperature, conductor onto memristor so you can pass as much power through them as you want, maybe what i said part of it is wrong so please correct me if i said something wrong.

[Boryspitzanzx]

people thumbs up this comment you will like it. now i will quickly take about boosting computer performance by technology now he said that 10 transistor is = 1 memristor now silicon based chips when you pass voltage through them they get heat and there melting point is not that high that is what limits performance this days if we can have graphene effective transistors you will get high performance now.what i want to implement is graphene with memristors so you can have as much power as you want

[daneil roberta]

the memristor doens't existe yet

[jonlegrange]

i recall the memristor as the 4 th circuit element ug course in NA in the 70s at UC. the problems had to be solved numerically back then on a mainframe using fortran. then i recall studying it in semiconducto physics in grad school and my instructors were very high on it. most of the problem seemed to be the 'will' to switch out of bulk cmos and the cost. micron is not working w/hp? good luck nice refresher. i bought a lot of hp stock today, wk hard, ;)! hp great engineers/crazy ceos!!

[dekoomers]

I may not understand the details of this technology but i now understand the fundamentals of what it is and how it operates.

[AdriLord666]

Interessant but is difficult to understand very well if you don't study the Computation.

[Cephas Atheos]

Hell, if you can change the resistance by a factor of 2^7, you've got a byte value in a single entity. Assuming you can read it out to that degree of certainty 1,000,000 times. Ditto with a scale of 2^16, you've got 64kbits of storage - in one entity. I guess no-one would credit me with that idea though, there're much smarter people than me working on this... And who wants a 16-bit ADC attached to every row of memristors?