Boise startup offers commercially available memristors?
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Data sheet: http://nebula.wsimg.com/35f756676bf3290bebff9c9ac0f9e3ea?Acc...
User manual: http://nebula.wsimg.com/6dba75009009af7a59036365876b3f66?Acc...
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wQviPeaNpw
This is very different materially from the TiO2 based ones used in HP-derived designs, though I'm not sure what differences that will lead to in practice.
If the actual device they were selling represented what they did in this technical work, I would be very, very excited. The I/V curve looks great.
BUT, compare that figure to the I/V curve represented in the longer datasheet (linked to in parent comment). A one million fold increase in resistance in 5nS- That isn't analog at all. It could be fairly emulated as almost a flip-flop with just a few transistors!! Although a binary memristor at scale might be more interesting as a memory (eg ReRAM), at this scale meant for neuromorphic analog applications, it becomes utterly uninteresting.
So to be honest I am baffled how they went from such a promising inspiration to a completely bland packaged device. Two possibiliies come to mind: 'they' are entirely different groups, or a major mis-marketing is occurring in the interest of gaining some funds for future R&D.
The good news is they don't even need to build memristors. Even simulated memristors are faster than than memory.
"The off-the-shelf, high-powered HP server completed the task in about two seconds. The simulated Machine needed only 50 milliseconds."
There is no Machine. There never was any Machine. The Machine is an urban myth, a grand illusion, something to give your life meaning, but which is in fact not there.
Someone probably made a nice sum from the temporary stock bump...
The idea was "imagine if you had a server with an insanely huge amount of non-volatile SRAM (that could hold OS, applications, and files), and no hard disk"
It was the "huge amount of non-volatile SRAM" part that the memristor was supposed to deliver and didn't.
Short term: a wide variety of demonstrators of various 'easy' problems, eg image and simple logic function pattern matching, in chip as opposed to in theory or software like you say. This can be done with dozens or a few hundred memristive devices.
Medium term: more interesting (my maybe not trying NP hard problems yet) application in image, sound processing and other non-linear signal processing that begin to rival best approaches coming from dozens of GPU cores. Such applications might require tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of devices. Pattern matching and classifications at this stage might rival that of a very simple brain or a small component of the neo-cortex.
Longer term: Unknown, but some possibilities when you use tens of millions of such devices may include full (neo)-cortex implementation in hardware, remember that an entirely new generation of non-linear algorithms that implement due to topological and temporal effects at the nano-scale may allow for better results than what we get given an equivalent number of transistors (yes, transistors are also nano-devices, but despite a small community working on sub-threshold switching, they are being used in an almost uniformly binary approach).
"Thank you for contacting us. Our 16 pin package is the newest offering in our Neuro-Bit line of memristor products. Single packages are $240.00 USD each. We are offering a 5% academic discount on all of your purchases. The 16 pin dip will be available for shipping late-May and we are taking pre-orders now."
Never mind that $240 for 8 fragile, difficult-to-work-with memristors is definitely not cheap.