Green Leaf Report

HP scientists have just made my electrical engineering degree obsolete with their proof of the existence of Memristors.  Thank goodness I sold my college textbooks long ago- I’m happy to see any breakthrough related to huge reductions in power requirements, though.  In theory, this memristor component holds memory without requiring power:

Building computers with Memristors might allow a full switch to non-volatile memory, doing away with power-sapping ‘running memory’ and allowing devices to consume far less power when operating. “Someday I imagine that you won’t have to charge your cellphone or your laptop so often.”  - Leon Chua

The memristor was first written about in 1971 by Leon Chua, but only recently built at the 5 nanometer size required to show the theorized behavior. This is a great, but I do have a small fear that memristors will end up wasted if used in commercial designs.  Like hybrid cars that still get lousy gas mileage but have more horsepower, let’s not waste the memristors on greater computing horsepower.  Let’s use it to massively reduce power consumption, and soon!  Great job HP.