Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Memristor, Memory of the future?

As we have all seen, memory devices has been key to the success of computers, laptops, PCs and nearly all of today’s technology.  So as you can imagine the race to find smaller memory devices that can hold gigabytes or even terabytes of memory is constantly on.
The Introduction of Flash memory which is a form of non-volatile memory was a big stepping stone. Now one of these technologies is the memristor, a type of flash memory that “can remember how much current has passed through it” this in turn allows it remain at its current state at the moment when the current is turned off and starts back the minute it powers up again. With this ability it is believed that it could even “replace RAM as we know them”.
With this new technology it is believed that the average computer will be remarkably faster, and will be able to complete more difficult tasks and be able to remember a range a different states rather than the on and off states today's computers have.
It is believed that one of the issues facing developers of the new memristoer is the material used in the making of it. Researchers out in Korea published a paper stating how the use of titanium oxide based memristors have been successful.
In response to this, HP realise new papers about “Switching location of a bipolar Memristor, chemical, Thermal and Structured Mapping”. It seems that the route of using titanium oxide based material is one many companies are taking as IOPs science nanotechnology says how it continued its focus on this type of material.
So it seems that the memristor with all its ability to remember and read different currents  will take its rightful place as the next advancement in the use of flash and non-volatile memory.

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