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I love this view. I googled "memristors" but still don't understand what I'm reading. Could anyone breakdown what those are, and why they might be world chang

• pjc50 8y ago
  Something of a pipedream, but they promise the speed of DRAM with the retention and density of Flash memory. They've been predicted for years but never quite made it.
  • schoen 8y ago
    There's apparently an ongoing controversy in EE literature about the best way to understand these devices (which also seems to imply a controversy about whether or not they'll be particularly commercially useful in the future). There's been a lot of HN discussion about different articles that predict a huge commercial importance for memristors—or that say that they're not very useful or not very interesting! https://hn.algolia.com/?query=memristor&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=memristor&sort=byPopularity&pr...
• cr0sh 8y ago
  If you are interested in memristors, look also into an earlier form of similar nature, called "memistors", as well the hardware ANNs developed called "ADALINE" and "MADALINE". Dig around (wikipedia is a good start) - you can find enough information on how to build a memistor and play with it yourself.