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  • Scientists Create First Memristor: Missing Fourth Electronic Circuit Element | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

    I can't wait to see how Kurzweil et al digest this bit of news. This should reduce the number of FLOPS needed to simulate a human brain by a few orders of magnitude, and reduce the power consumption as well. Assuming that one memristor= one transistor in complexity, we should be able to... more

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  • Rated by BluePeriphery on Aug 19 2008, 1:55pm

    Thats revolutionary enough to make many electrical engineering degrees outdated.

  • Rated by jcharliem on May 19 2008, 11:44am

    wow, seems too good to be true. cant wait for technology to arrive. and yes, i do mean generally.

  • Rated by sarrvaghna on May 03 2008, 4:38am

    nerdy

  • Rated by lpgz on May 02 2008, 4:51am

    Wow--this is a real breakthrough.

  • Rated by DarwinsLilHelper on May 01 2008, 5:32pm

    Somehow, I think using this for consumer electronics is a bad idea

  • Rated by dr-zeus-rocketma on May 01 2008, 7:13am

    I can't wait to see how Kurzweil et al digest this bit of news. This should reduce the number of FLOPS needed to simulate a human brain by a few orders of magnitude, and reduce the power consumption as well. Assuming that one memristor= one transistor in complexity, we should be able to make an artificial brain with around 2 Billion synapses, or 285,000 neurons, per computer chip. This would require only 350,000 chips to simulate a human brain. This is about a 100,000x improvement and should reduce the amount of "speed doublings" by 16, which translates to a 24 year jump not counting the time to market.So this tech may net us 15-20 years of gain, bringing the Singularity that much closer. Go Science!

  • Rated by dekonstruct on May 01 2008, 6:20am

    Here comes the singularity, watch out!

  • Rated by watdidyusaey on Apr 30 2008, 5:13pm

    this is an amazing break through but i think the tag should be changed