The Future of Your PC's Hardware
Many of my
tech friends show that they did not know about MEMRISTOR
Think “How
will we design systems when we have access to a new material that is two orders
of magnitude more efficient from a power perspective than traditional
transistor technologies, contains multiple petabits (1 petabit = 128TB) of
persistent storage, and can be reconfigured to be either memory or CPU in a
package as small as a sugar cube (in a stacked configuration)?”
This simple
memristor circuit could bring a new era of electronic devices
From the beginning
of the electronic device there are 3 types of circuits namely INDUCTOR, CONDUCTOR and RESISTOR. But a new type was
theoretically proved by UC Berkeley
researcher Leon Chua in 1971
In 2008, a team at HP Labs claimed to have found Chua's missing memristor based on an analysis of a thin film of titanium dioxide
What
exactly is this?
A memristor
is a hypothetical non-linear passive two-terminal electrical component relating
electric charge and magnetic flux linkage The memristor’s
electrical
resistance is not constant but depends on the history of current that had
previously flowed through the device, i.e., its present resistance depends on
how much electric charge has flowed in what direction through it in the past;
the device remembers its history — the so-called non-volatility property
In his video Finding the Missing Memristor by
R. Stanley Williams explains this concept as a simple analogy
“A
memristor is a pipe that changes diameter with the amount and direction of
water that flows through it. If water flows through this pipe in one direction,
it expands (becoming less resistive). But send the water in the opposite
direction and the pipe shrinks (becoming more resistive). Further, the
memristor remembers its diameter when water last went through. Turn off the
flow and the diameter of the pipe “freezes” until the water is turned back on.
That freezing property suits memristors brilliantly for computer memory. The
ability to indefinitely store resistance values means that a memristor can be
used as a non-volatile memory”
HP
connections with MEMRISTOR?
In 2008, a
team at HP Labs claimed to have found Chua's missing memristor based on an
analysis of a thin film of titanium dioxide thus connecting the operation of
RRAM devices to the memristor concept; the HP result was published in Nature
HP promised it
would launch "a replacement for flash in the summer of 2013," but by
the time 2012 rolled around, HP announced a further delay, saying it wouldn't
be available until 2014.
Hopes of
memristor-loving boffins the world over were truly dashed in 2013 when HP CTO
Martin Fink said HP would start churning out 100TB memristor storage drives ... in
2018. This stuff, as miraculous as seems, is devilishly hard to manufacture.
Now HP says
the tech could come along in DIMM form by 2016, according to a slide shown at
the conference, and that it will appear by the end of the decade in a new
device:
The Machine
The Machine
HERE’S THE
HP PLAN
IF this goes
as per schedule, HP may defeat the rot in its printing and computer divisions
that is currently weighing it down. If it doesn't work, though, HP could become
another Sun Microsystems, a company that birthed some incredible inventions but
never quite figured out how to make money from them.
With the
things going either ways, This MEMISTOR will definitely have an effect on our electronic
devices and we may step forward in the new era of electronics
Hope you
find it useful! 😊😊😊😊😊
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