HP Labs' find could revolutionize computing. "Memristor"
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HP Labs said Wednesday that it has proved the existence of a new element in electrical engineering that was first described in a scientific paper 37 years ago.
Called the memristor, short for "memory resistor," it could make possible cell phones that don't lose memory, data centers that operate despite fluctuations in power, and computers that recognize and remember human faces and learn from experience.
The tiny particle is 5 nanometers thick - as small as a sugar molecule - and was described this week in a paper published in the latest issue of Nature by a team of four Hewlett-Packard researchers led by R. Stanley Williams, the founding director of HP Labs' Information and Quantum Systems Lab.
Deborah Gage, Chronicle Staff Writer
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