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Very small Diode....

dont think power going back & forth on same line is so smart. Maybe workable & Not explainable.

Maybe another Graphene Junket. Maybe Machine/Cranium Interface Compound.

ST e Wie

posted by : Di, 14 April 2010 Complain about this comment
However.

I do think the schematic with the 'missing' formula is pure raving lunacy though, even if it semi-fits in the implementation as outlined, and the only reason there's a 'missing' bit in that diagram is because they draw it into a square, purely arbitrary.
The whole thing is a bit like the origins of the word 'ether'.

But of course that diagram stuff is only to excuse a cute name for it, so it doesn't matter, as long as you got something that works and has a name you can remember all is good.

posted by : W.-, 13 April 2010 Complain about this comment
Flux Capacitor

Doc Brown's inspiration?

posted by : monmak, 13 April 2010 Complain about this comment
"a silicon dioxide nanowire"

All that remains is to add circuitry to meter current through this one little wire, and to sense the TINY change. I bet that circuitry to do so turns out nowhere near as dense as dynamic RAM (which is down to storing literally a FEW electrons on each capacitor, with very simple charge and sense).

Let's say it's implemented as a crucial element in a two transistor flip-flop, which inherently provides the current injection to make changes besides read-out sensing. Even so, a massive array of such surely can't be much less complex than static RAM, so I'm still skeptical that it's The Next Big Thing.

And since this relies on physical change of a semiconductor just as current flash memory does, how is it fundamentally different, except for being impractically small?

posted by : bigger_luddite, 13 April 2010 Complain about this comment
Pumps

This is a bit like how cells and ionpumps work, and coincidentally it's intriguing for virus-writers too of course when stuff stay in memory even when the computer is off, I bet sony is already putting people on it to write some of their viruses, or as they might call it 'content protection assist programs'.

posted by : W.-, 12 April 2010 Complain about this comment
:)

Good stuff.

posted by : Anthony, 12 April 2010 Complain about this comment
Great article

Thank you for the good reading. Now let's wait and see.

posted by : ThumbsUp, 12 April 2010 Complain about this comment

Thanks for the memristor

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