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2008 was the first memristor; it was only theoretical before that. It says this in the first sentence of the article. I can't tell if bringing up your boss is

• TheSOB88 17y ago
  OK, I guess I was wrong about the dates. I must have glossed over that sentence. The point about my boss is that the things he gets excited about, while they do sort of make sense, have been proven untrue by further science. A correlation test, sure. But still a useful test. Further, memristors can do logic and memory, but we have things that can do those. They show no advantages over CPU/RAM. I think the only interesting part is the analogy to neurons, but neurons are able to form connections to other neurons and have other machinery as well. Memristors are wholly unimpressive to me.
  • ramidarigaz 17y ago
    The big thing about memristors is that they are stable. Think ram that doesn't go blank when you turn the computer off. The first application that comes to mind is basically save-states. You could just shut your computer off, and when you turn it back on, it would resume from where it left off. Of course, the memristors would have to become much, much faster. The way I see it, memristors could eventually displace hard-drives, and unify computer memory.