Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams

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Strong rec pohl · 2010-05 · on “How will memristors change everything? ”

There's a presentation by R. Stanley Williams linked to in the article, and it is well worth watching. [this video] It has some tidbits I didn't expect. Teaser: "one of the guys in my group has...built a compiler to compile C code using implication logic rather than NAND logic and, interestingly enough, when we play with that the compiled code we get is always more condensed...by about a factor of 3"

Strong rec mbenjaminsmith · 2012-06 · on “Intel Reveals Neuromorphic Chip Design”

I don't understand why Leon Chua keeps popping up first when memristors are discussed. Williams at HP is the person that made it a reality. Chua postulated the existence of the memristor but as far as I know made no progress on a working example. That's a bit like giving da Vinci credit for the invention of the helicopter. The Williams talk on youtube is really good. He discusses the element itself, its use in memory (as vast amounts of on-CPU memory) as well as the possibility of new CPU architectures based on it: [this video]

Strong rec reitzensteinm · 2012-07 · on “SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011”

We may actually see them both happening at once; one of the things R. Stanley Williams talks about in his excellent memristor talk is a method they developed for stacking hundreds of chips on top of a processor, which he says may end up providing just as much benefit as the memristor itself. The possibilities that could be opened up by having a terabyte or more of extremely fast non volatile storage attached by a bus as large as you care to make it directly on top of a CPU are mind boggling. Then when you consider that you can use them as FPGAs for computation instead and dynamically reconfigure them... wow. Memristors are only a year or two away from commercial availability, though it will

Strong rec achille · 2014-06 · on “With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer”

I encourage folks to watch this tech talk by HP Research Labs on the discovery of the memristor and implementation details. It goes into the gory technical details, from the low level physics to the construction of the gates, the truth tables, and the high level computation possibilities once chips are assembled in a crossbar package. > [this video]

Strong rec jmpe · 2014-06 · on “Will 7nm And 5nm Really Happen?”

How i learned to stop worrying and love the miniaturization: [this video] Seriously, watch it. Memristor-tech relies on this kind of miniaturization and can provide a speed boost in several areas in current architectures. Secondly, having worked for semi: there's a lot of conservative force holding back development. We could have had current tech with much less worries than we have now if they didn't respond so allergically to everything that looks a little exotic in the CMOS process, like high-k dielectrics.

Strong rec FD3SA · 2014-11 · on “Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing”

This is an interesting implementation of the memristor, but I still think the real breakthrough will be in the two state memristor [1]. Once memristor fabrication technology is mature, we are going to see a massive paradigm shift away from the Von Neumann architecture. All the details are in the linked video by HP's Stan Williams. Definitely worth a watch if you're interested in the future of computing 1. [this video] (start at 38m for future computing implications) EDIT: Another video [2], but a bit more in depth. Recommended if the material in the first was a bit confusing as Stan was short on time to explain some of the details. 2. [LINK]

Recommends modeless · 2010-04 · on “Get Ready For the Memristor Revolution”

For more technical details try this video of a keynote by R. Stanley Williams: [this video] Submitted as a YC story here: [LINK]

Recommends plasma · 2011-10 · on “HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months”

Watch HP research's Stanley Williams describe the memristor and what they are working towards in more detail on YouTube: [this video]