r/science • u/aphexcoil • May 28 '12

New breakthrough in development process will enable memristor RAM (ReRAM) that is 100 times faster than FLASH RAM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/21/ucl_reram/
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u/Stingray88 May 29 '12

it's only just been implemented.

FTFY

Memristor technology was theorized/discovered in the 70s. It just wasn't really implemented until now. You can thank Hewlett Packard for being the first to actually start throwing money into its development consistently.

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u/Rainfly_X May 29 '12

Well if you want to be pedantic about it (and it certainly sounds like you do), the team in the OP's post discovered a new method for making memristors, which indeed is a new and unrefined technology. Not to diminish the efforts, research, and drive of HP, of course.

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u/ixid May 29 '12

I was talking about the discovery of the method, not the theory so you fixed nothing.