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I'm not an expert on this, but I think you might be thinking of nvram/non volatile RAM, "memristor" is a portmanteau of memory and transistor, so I'd expect tha
by ericd 9y ago
I'm not an expert on this, but I think you might be thinking of nvram/non volatile RAM, "memristor" is a portmanteau of memory and transistor, so I'd expect that they have properties of both.
- digi_owl 9y agoNot quite. memristors are resistors with a memory. Specifically as current is run across it, it builds up more and more resistance. Then as the current is reversed (the plus and minus ends of the resistor is switched) this resistance will go back down. Thus it can be used as non-volatile memory in the sense that certain tiers of resistance can be designated as a bit. Note that as it is fundamentally an analog component one can potentially also used this property to emulate a neuron.
- markdog12 9y agoCurrency? Is it a crypto-currency that runs across it? :)
- digi_owl 9y agobleeping butterfingers... Fixed.
- ericd 9y agoThanks very much for the correction! Removing my foot from my mouth, now. That's incredibly interesting, especially the idea that it could be used to emulate neurons. I expect that it'd be hard to fabricate them with a very high branching factor, but as I've amply demonstrated, I know very little about this topic.
- deepnotderp 9y agoActually it's a portmanteau of "memory" and "resistor". That's important since it's basically a variable resistance resistor that "remembers" its resistance.
- ericd 9y agoAh ha, thanks for the correction!