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“Memristors have the potential to turn the computing world upside down,” said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. “Because they are both processor and storage, they act much like synapses in the human brain. Networked together, they look to be very much faster at tasks, like pattern recognition, than conventional computers. Because of the memory aspect, they can ‘learn’ much better than today’s systems.”

Posted at 12:48pm and tagged with: technology, computers, chips, moores law,.

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