Stanley Williams, HP Senior Fellow and UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute AOB Chair, demonstrates control of memristors. This discovery could lead to computers that learn.

A memristor is one of four basic electrical circuit components, joining the resistor, capacitor, and inductor. The memristor, short for “memory resistor” ...

HP Labs scientists who in April proved the existence of the memristor have made another significant advance toward developing a new type of computer memory that's many times faster than Flash and could lead to analog computers that process information in a manner similar to the human brain.

It is now possible to design memristors into integrated circuits that remember information, consume far less power than existing devices and may someday learn from past behavior.

Scientist Jianhua Yang said, "What we're talking about is the computer itself - the hardware - being able to learn."


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