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You know a lot of programs that know how to use memristors?

• angersock 12y ago
  That's...it's not...goddamnit. That's what we have drivers and operating systems for. :(
• joezydeco 12y ago
  All of them? It's just another type of non-volatile storage.
  • caster_cp 12y ago
    I think the point here is not "knowing how to use memristors". Sure, it is possible to use them simply as another type of non-volatile memory. But it's the same as having an airplane and driving it on the road. Memristors, the way they are hyped, promise to be orders of magnitude smaller, faster, cheaper AND less energy consuming than all of the other memories that exist. All at the same time. If time proves this all to be true, it can bring really groundbreaking changes to computing. And we all will be able to watch more funny cat videos, at a greater resolution.
• TallGuyShort 12y ago
  No, but I can name a lot of programs where the authors never even considered how hard disks or RAM worked.
• reitzensteinm 12y ago
  There are quite a few smug replies to you, but my siblings are missing that the interesting thing about memristors is their potential for putting dynamically configurable computation (using implication logic) directly inside high density storage. Taking advantage of such systems will not be business as usual, it'll look even more foreign to us than CUDA does to a Javascript developer. Sure, you can use an interface and use them just like a regular storage device, but until and unless you can get the cost per bit below flash it's not interesting at all. If that was all memristors could do, it's not even clear that they would be in active development - this is a moon shot by HP (no pun intended).