The brainiacs at H.P. think they ’ve disclose a way to replace transistor with engineering science that will shrink chips to the nuclear scale . Emphasis on “ psyche . ”
They ’re even throw around impressive hyperbole , saying , as electric railroad engineer Dr. Leon O. Chua did , that “ we have the right stuff now to work up material brains . ” Bwah ? Real brains ?
Sort of . The “ stuff ” is call a memristor , and truth be told Dr. Chua really conceived the estimation way back in the Digital Dark Age known as 1971 ( earnestly , there was no Facebook ) . It was only in 2008 , however , that an H.P. laboratory at UC Berkeley was able to implement the engineering and compare the result to how a human brain go . turn out they ’re standardised , Dr. Chua say , with our constitutional synapsis and grayish matter carry very much like his contrived memristors .
A memristor ’s potency is derived from the fact that it is far mere than a traditional semiconducting transistor and that it can store information without an electric flow . It ’s also much , much smaller—3 - micromillimetre , liken to 30 - 40 nanometers in today ’s most advanced transistor — which is important to note as chipmakers slay a wall in terms of electronic transistor size of it .
H.P. researchers believe that by 2013 memristors - based memory could be a serious challenger to flash memory , with a capacity of 20 GB per square centimeter . Artificial psyche will inevitably arrive sometime later .
Image : Desenchufados[New York Times ]
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