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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

"CHIPS: 3-D memristor chip debuts"


Memristors technology got a boost recently from Hewlett-Packard Labs, which described the first 3-D memristor chip at the recent Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium. There HP Labs provided details about a prototype chip that stacked memristor crossbar memory cells on top of a CMOS logic chip. HP used imprint lithography to add a memristor crossbar holding a field-programmable gate array's configuration bits above its transistor cells. HP claims its memristor-based FPGA demonstrates that any CMOS fab can make integrated memristor/transistor circuits in three dimensions. HP Labs is also looking for ways to use memristors in artificial neural networks. Is a new industry forming around memristor technology?
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212200673
Audio: http://homepage.mac.com/guitarmedia/interviews/rcjMemristor-08-11-26.mp3