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RE: Another 3-5 years...?
By foolsgambit11 on 11/26/2008 4:42:44 PM , Rating: 2
How long will HP's patent be on this? Because that's how long it will be before we see it in the majority of applications, I'd say. Why bother licensing memristor technology from them when you can get the job done pretty well with the tools we have now? That's what the hardware developers' bosses will say, at least. The developers would love to begin using these in their designs right away, I'm sure.

I'm betting there's a speed problem with these things. How quickly can it change resistance? That would be the limiting factor, and HP doesn't explicitly say they are fast. It says they can make designs smaller and more power efficient. It says it will giver Moore's Law a boost (by which I assume they mean number of transistors (or transistor-equivalents, I guess) in a given area) - but that doesn't necessarily mean increased speed when you're no longer using transistors. Maybe I'm just a pessimist. Anybody got some data on performance, or is it just too early in development to say how these will perform?

Also, what kind of percentage die shrink are we talking about? I'm assuming it would depend on the application (the number of circuits that can be reproduced with memristors instead of transistors). So what would we expect in usage for CPUs? GPUs? non-volatile memory?

RE: Another 3-5 years...?
By drebo on 11/26/2008 5:19:00 PM , Rating: 2
That's not true at all. If nVidia, for example, can save $10/chip by licensing this for $5/chip, then of course they will go for it. Remember, the cost of a chip in raw materials is directly proportional to its size, rather than the complexity of the circuits inside of it. Anything that can make that chip smaller will save money.


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