Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] stunningly important discovery in nano-electronics

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Jonathan King wrote:

> Ladies and gentlemen, the memristor:
>
> http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/hp-discovers-potential-god-particle-electronics
>
> This will take a while to get into consumer level devices, but then it 
> will be very, very interesting.


If it provides inexpensive storage, like as cheap as HDD but as fast as 
RAM, then we'll have super powered machines with hundreds of gigs of RAM 
in them because we'll be able to use the space either as permanent storage 
or as RAM.  That will be interesting.

It would be nice to have a laptop that doesn't need to reboot but if it 
runs Windows, it's going to have problems and need a reboot anyway.

What will we be doing with its analog encoding system?  That sounds like 
it could be super important.  For one, doesn't it suggest more efficient 
schemes for encoding sound and images?  Digital is forever, but maybe 
analog is better for getting certain jobs done -- like storing tons of 
music and photos on a laptop in minimal space.

More stuff:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/211228

Mike

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