Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended for years as the best technical introduction to memristors from the person who found the physical device.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Qualcomm Institute

Topic

memristors

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

12

HN mentions in dataset

17

Recommendation years in dataset

2010–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• There's a presentation by R. Stanley Williams linked to in the article, and it is well worth watching. [VIDEO] It has some tidbits I didn't expect. Teaser: "one of the guys in my group has...built a compiler to compile C code using implication logic rather …

• I don't understand why Leon Chua keeps popping up first when memristors are discussed. Williams at HP is the person that made it a reality. Chua postulated the existence of the memristor but as far as I know made no progress on a working example. …

• We may actually see them both happening at once; one of the things R. Stanley Williams talks about in his excellent memristor talk is a method they developed for stacking hundreds of chips on top of a processor, which he says may end up providing …