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I was speaking recently to a veteran SV hardware engineer, with a masters in EE from Berkeley, who has worked at leading SV companies. They had never heard of a
by forapurpose 9y ago
I was speaking recently to a veteran SV hardware engineer, with a masters in EE from Berkeley, who has worked at leading SV companies. They had never heard of a memristor, neither the device nor the term. Do I live in a bubble, or are you as surprised as I am?
- andreyk 9y agoMemristors are ultra cutting edge and mostly theoretical/still being studied in labs. If this person is an engineer in industry it makes sense they have not heard about it.
- kongolongo 9y agoEE is a huge field. It's hard to keep up with new developments even if you have a broad foundation. That being said, memtransistors and memristors have been theorized and subsequently developed in research for quite some time now. Memrsistors were first theorized in the 50s and then in the 70s were proposed to be a fourth fundamental electrical circuit element alongside resistors, capacitors, and inductors.
- cycrutchfield 9y agoGiven that the existence of memristors was first predicted by a professor at Berkeley (Leon Chua), yes I am surprised. Surely he had to have heard of them.
- wl 9y agoMemristors are a pretty niche topic. Until somebody made some, they were an obscure topic in circuit theory. Even now that they exist, they've yet to be commercialized. It makes sense for a practicing EE who may not follow the tech press all that closely to not know about them.
- cycrutchfield 9y agoI studied EECS at Berkeley, but almost entirely just CS. I took maybe 1 circuits class. Even I have heard of memristors and Leon Chua.
- Wildgoose 9y agoI'm surprised - I'm purely a software developer and I've known about memristors for years, probably decades.