IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture will speed up computers

Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by digi_owl on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:07PM (#15570804)

Not quite. memristors are resistors with a memory.

Specifically as current is run across it, it builds up more and more resistance. Then as the current is reversed (the plus and minus ends of the resistor is switched) this resistance will go back down.

Thus it can be used as non-volatile memory in the sense that certain tiers of resistance can be designated as a bit.

Note that as it is fundamentally an analog component one can potentially also used this property to emulate a neuron.

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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by ericd on Friday October 27, 2017 @06:12PM (#15572615)

Thanks very much for the correction! Removing my foot from my mouth, now.

That's incredibly interesting, especially the idea that it could be used to emulate neurons. I expect that it'd be hard to fabricate them with a very high branching factor, but as I've amply demonstrated, I know very little about this topic.

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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by markdog12 on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:19PM (#15570913)

Currency? Is it a crypto-currency that runs across it? :)

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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by digi_owl on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:24PM (#15570942)

bleeping butterfingers...

Fixed.

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