1. By: Eric Moreno

2.  What is it?  What does it do?  What impact will it have?  When will it be available?

3.  Electrical circuit designed in 1971  A concentration of memory resistors  Could not be given a physical form  HP finally created the first Memristor.  9 nanometers in size

4.  Can remember how much current has gone through it  Will save its electronic state when power is off.  It will remember exactly what it was doing before it was turned off  Software will not need to load each time

5.  Memristors will be Cheaper, Faster and be able to hold more memory density than flash memory.  By remembering its electrical state it could replace RAM in the future.  Make computers more affordable, smaller and more powerful.  Researchers believe it’s the start for computers to start making decisions and learning.

6.  Memristors could be used in technology as soon as 2012 replacing flash memory.  They believe that it could replace DRAMs by 2014 and maybe Hard Disk by 2016.  For a full analog computer based on Memristors it could take up to 20 years.

7.  http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/04/s cientists-prov/ http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/04/s cientists-prov/  http://www.pcworld.com/article/152683- 2/15_hot_new_technologies_that_will_change_ everything.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/152683- 2/15_hot_new_technologies_that_will_change_ everything.html  http://www.memristor.org/reference/researc h/13/what-are-memristors