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HP the infamous company whose printer ink costs more than the  human blood has done something that would allow us to have a electronic brain in the near future.yeah it is called memristors(memory + resistor Duh…) such a thing was first  theorized by a professor called Leon Chua  in 1971,now HP has announced that they will be mass producing  memristors by 2013.HP had done significant research and announced that memristors can be created and used in various areas of application back in 2008.

So what is a memristor? well it is a special type of resistor which can remember the current that has passed through it ,so the electronic state is  retained  even if there is no power supplied .this phenomenon has incredible application in the field of micro storages and it doesn't stop there memristrors are expected to  potentially replace conventional transistors that are used in  today’s computer systems because they take up much smaller space and provide almost twice the performance .a memristor system can even be used to create a electronic brain if its potential is fully exploited!.

As the number transistors that can be placed on a chip is increasing exponentially we may soon  face a limit due to the  size of the component.memristors will allow chip making company’s to push past that barrier and create advanced chips which are capable of providing unimaginable computing power.what we saw in many sci-fi books,movies,TV shows is going to materialize right before our eyes pretty soon.