The Memristor Has Arrived
This has to be one of the most exciting developments in electronics since the creation of the transistor back in the ’60s. The memristor was first conceived in theory back in 1971 to sit alongside the other mainstay passive components: the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor. It took until now for scientists at HP to figure out how to build one. This opens the door for even smaller and higher-density nonvolatile memory, but even more importantly, analog computing that works much the same way the brain operates. Check out this article for more details.