In a previous post, I mused about how new types of computer memory might change the future of computers. The future I envisioned might arrive sooner than I thought. An article in EE Times describes the creation at HP of working memristors. Leon Chua postulated the existence of the memristor in 1971 as the fourth passive circuit element after the resistor, capacitor, and inductor. It has remained hypothetical ever since, until now.

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