Memristor - another technology aimed at Flash memory and more

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A post on Slashdot today points to an article from HP regarding their Memristor technology. They are hoping to have a product that will compete with Flash memory in the next year and a half. Beyond that they're goals are to eventually have a working alternative to DRAM that will be non-volatile. If this works out, that will be an interesting change for power-saving features like sleep and suspend in a computer. It could simple go in and out of suspend very quickly to conserve power. Anyway, it's a while out into the future and who knows if it'll even worked as claimed.
 

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That is an old article from 2008. A big question is cost and reliability. I suspect they will have limited application for a while.
 
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