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April 8, HP will present the development of tiny switches that can replace semiconductor transistor, wrote The New York Times. The technology is known as the memristor.

Researchers from HP Laboratories has made significant progress in storing and retrieving information from large three-dimensional arrays memristor. Thus, they have increased the data rate to the level of modern silicon transistors and increased life-cycle devices to hundreds of thousands of transactions recording and reading data.

Stan Williams, a physicist at the laboratory of HP, said in an interview that after three years, his company can provide the market a memory chip based on the memristor volume of 20 gigabytes, the size of which will not exceed one square centimeter. He believes that the existing technology of flash memory that time will provide similar-sized device, only 10 gigabytes of memory.

Memristors a passive element in microelectronics and differ significantly from currently used transistors. They allow you to store information in the absence of electric current. HP will sure Memristors will replace traditional transistors, the size of which currently is 30-40 nanometers. For comparison, HP has created Memristors size 3 nanometers, which can enable / disable each nanosecond.

The theory of the memristor was created by Leon Chua (Leon O. Chua), University of California (University of California) in 1971, but the first laboratory samples were submitted to HP only in 2008.

HP will note that the new technology can replace flash memory and RAM-memory used in computers at the moment. Dr Chua believes that Memristors can be used to create the analog computer systems, which will resemble the structure of the human brain. He also likened Memristors with synapses, which transmit impulses between nerve cells.