Memristor RAM now cheap as chips

Terrible, awful, no good headline. What the lede actually says: "Cheaper memristors could result from an accidental discovery at University College London."

I didn't bother reading any farther. I'll wait for a better presentation.

Wow, only 3,000 cycles. I haven't heard about this property of memristors before. I guess they still have a long time to go before becoming production-ready. On the good side, they look very, very dense, so maybe some kind of ECC would help?http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~tkenyon/Photonic_Materials/Silicon_...

No, it isn't "as cheap as chips."

I've looked, and I can't buy it at any price, which means it's basically infinity. (Searching Newegg returns this: 'We have found 0 items that match "memristor".') However, lots of places are selling all kinds of things with conventional RAM in them, for prices a whole lot lower than infinity. (Unfortunately, hot air is not included.)

The article changes tenses a lot, which makes it almost impossible to tell if this has been created already, or is waiting to be created. Dr Kenyon's site doesn't really help in that matter.

My question is: Why didn't Intel already know about this? They have more real and theoretical knowledge of the behavior of silicon and various silicon-based materials than anyone else.