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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: In-Memory Computing
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:25:37 -0000 (UTC)
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According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:
>On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 21:32:29 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>
>> ... doing arithmetic in ferrite cores has been around for a very long
>> time, indeed.
>
>Memristors are a new kind of electronic component, where the resistance is 
>proportional to the integral of applied voltage over time.

This is a rather capacious version of "new" since memristors were invented in 1971.

My impression is that they are real, they work, but they don't work well enough to
replace conventional components.

There is a very long article about them in Wikipedia.
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