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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by aidenn0 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @04:08PM (#7880140)
Note that other companies had been working on switched resistance crossbar latches with metal oxides before HP, they just didn't have a fancy name for it.
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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by aaronblohowiak on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @06:52PM (#7880906)
The name comes from the 1971 paper from Leon Chua.. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=108333...
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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by aidenn0 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @07:18PM (#7880999)
Yes, but referring to varying resistance metal-oxides as memristors is much more recent (2008ish I think) and is still somewhat controversioal.
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