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aidenn0 on June 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kin...

Note that other companies had been working on switched resistance crossbar latches with metal oxides before HP, they just didn't have a fancy name for it.

aaronblohowiak on June 11, 2014 [–]

The name comes from the 1971 paper from Leon Chua.. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=108333...

aidenn0 on June 11, 2014 | [–]

Yes, but referring to varying resistance metal-oxides as memristors is much more recent (2008ish I think) and is still somewhat controversioal.

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