"It's something most of us never think about. But you may start to take notice if HP Labs is successful in commercializing a new version of computer memory, which would make our electronics dramatically faster and more energy efficient. The technology is called memristor, and it is designed to work more like our brains and less like the electronic on and off switches that run computer memory now. "The memristor has properties very similar to synapses in a brain," said Stan Williams, a senior fellow at HP Labs, which has been working on this technology since 1998. Unlike conventional computer memory, which stores data with electronic on and off switches, Hewlett-Packard's memristor technology works on the atomic level. As electrons move across a titanium dioxide memristor chip, they nudge atoms ever so slightly, sometimes no more than a nanometer. These subtle bumps record changes in the data." - Lit

"Since the memristor technology is so fast at writing data, this could also signal the end of long waits to boot up personal computers and laptops...Williams, who has been working on the memristor project with HP Labs, in Palo Alto, California, since its start, said the reason a revolution in computer memory is needed is that traditional ways of storing and retrieving data are about to reach a point where further innovation will be difficult." - Lit

thank you for this feed. it is interesting - amir

I try ;) - Lit

...and succeed, Hannah :) - Eivind

thanx - Lit