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Re:Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash... by desdiv on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @01:30PM (#9963151)
If you asked me to explain what a memristor is without using the words "memory" and "resistor", I probably would have said something very close to this sentence in the article:

>The new architecture does without transistors entirely, relying on a bulk material property change to switch bits from a low-resistance to a high-resistance state.

So what's the difference between Intel's 3D Xpoint and memristors?

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Re:Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash... by norea-armozel on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @01:53PM (#9963300)
They may be using some other process to manipulate the properties of the media in question. Good old fashioned solid state physics to the rescue I guess. It just saddens me that HP borked the whole memristor fabrication issue with their Machine project (a non-von-Neumann architecture would be fun to toy with).
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Re:Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash... by ovet on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:56PM (#9963734)
It could be the way Intel is layering the memristors.

>From there, memory cells are layered in an intricate three-dimensional checkerboard pattern that Intel researchers say is 10 times denser than conventional memory.

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Re:Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash... by minthd on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @01:36PM (#9963202)
Maybe there's no difference ? maybe they want to play the stock market, because for memristors, they might have competition, for example from crossbar inc ?
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Re:Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash... by desdiv on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @01:46PM (#9963265)
The memristor patents might be an issue as well.
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Re:Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash... by minthd on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @01:47PM (#9963270)
Maybe intel mostly licenses the tech from crossbar, and just scales the production ?
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