memristors- H.P. Sees a Revolution

[udaman]

H.P. Sees a Revolution in Memory Chip

“Not only do we think that in three years we can be better than the competitors,” Dr. Williams said.

“The memristor technology really has the capacity to continue scaling for a very long time, and that’s really a big deal.”

For both CPU & storage uses...could be big, if and when it makes it into commercial scale production...@comparable or lower cost.

The most advanced transistor technology today is based on minimum feature sizes of 30 to 40 nanometers — by contrast a biological virus is typically about 100 nanometers — and Dr. Williams said that H.P. now has working 3-nanometer memristors that can switch on and off in about a nanosecond, or a billionth of a second.

He said the company could have a competitor to flash memory in three years that would have a capacity of 20 gigabytes a square centimeter.
“We believe that that is at least a factor of two better storage than flash memory will be able to have in that time frame,” he said.

 

[LunarMist]

I don't know about HP. So many products never make it to market.