Comments on: The Power of Wikipedia - 1.21 GigaWatts http://theasicguy.com/2008/05/04/the-power-of-wikipedia-121-gigawatts/ sharing insights into the people side of ASIC design Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:10:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: harry http://theasicguy.com/2008/05/04/the-power-of-wikipedia-121-gigawatts/#comment-113 harry Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:48:52 +0000 http://theasicguy.com/2008/05/04/the-power-of-wikipedia-121-gigawatts/#comment-113 This week HP came out with an update on the memristor work. They've been able to demonstrate how to control the memristor material and have better understanding of how it works and it's device characteristics. When used for non-volatile memory elements, the devices achieve 50ns access time, which blows the doors off of Flash. They are shooting to be able to produce prototype RAMs for their crossbar architecture in 2009. For more info, check out the <a href="http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=HRNYQIK10CTBYQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=208803176 rel="nofollow">EE Times Article</a> and <a href="http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1950029595.html" rel="nofollow">Steve Leibson's EDN Blog</a rel="nofollow">. This week HP came out with an update on the memristor work. They’ve been able to demonstrate how to control the memristor material and have better understanding of how it works and it’s device characteristics. When used for non-volatile memory elements, the devices achieve 50ns access time, which blows the doors off of Flash.

They are shooting to be able to produce prototype RAMs for their crossbar architecture in 2009.

For more info, check out the EE Times Article and Steve Leibson’s EDN Blog.

]]> By: Konn Danley http://theasicguy.com/2008/05/04/the-power-of-wikipedia-121-gigawatts/#comment-30 Konn Danley Sun, 04 May 2008 22:33:34 +0000 http://theasicguy.com/2008/05/04/the-power-of-wikipedia-121-gigawatts/#comment-30 Harry, Thanks for the info on this. Brought to commercial viability, this changes the entire basis of the electronics world and is very, very exciting. The power reduction aspect of dynamic resistance is going to be paramount going into the nanotechnology realm. They say it gets better the smaller it gets. I hope to find out what sizes they are talking about and/or what kinds of limitations there may be with this new revolutionary technology. Thanks again for the info. Konn Harry,

Thanks for the info on this. Brought to commercial viability, this changes the entire basis of the electronics world and is very, very exciting. The power reduction aspect of dynamic resistance is going to be paramount going into the nanotechnology realm. They say it gets better the smaller it gets. I hope to find out what sizes they are talking about and/or what kinds of limitations there may be with this new revolutionary technology.

Thanks again for the info.

Konn

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