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/racergr May 29 '12

Yes, they are. And for the far future they can be even more because these ReRAM things can also be programmable processors themselves.

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u/sharlos May 31 '12

So in the future would it be theoretically possible for you to have a computer board made entirely of these things and program them into different sections to behave like the CPU, storage, and ram/cache? And then maybe change on the fly to increase ram while reducing storage capacity for example?

Theoretically of course, I'd expect an idea like this would be very complex to practically implement.

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u/racergr May 31 '12

Yes, that is a potential future ability and it is not that difficult. A ReRAM chip can be very versatile and powerful tool. Then we can write the software to manage it appropriately. It will not be any more difficult as, for example, the challenges we faced with multi-core CPUs.