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Down with the transistor: new 'memristor' could radically transform computer chips.(atter & Energy)

Publication: Science News
Publication Date: 24-MAY-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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AFTER GOING UNCHALLENGED FOR decades, the transistor's supremacy could come to an end. Researchers have demonstrated a new type of electronic component that could replace transistors as the building blocks of computer chips and lead to faster, more powerful and less energy-thirsty computers....

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Stanley Williams and his collaborators at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., have created the memristor, a piece of an electric circuit with baggage: Its history determines its...

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