New Technologies That is called Memoristor

The memorister, a microscopic component that can "remember" electrical states even when turned off. It's expected to be far cheaper and faster than flash storage. Memorisor was originally envisioned in 1971 by circuit theorist Leon Chua as a missing non-linear passive two-terminal electrical component relating electric charge and magnetic flux linkage it has now been built in labs and is already starting to revolutionize everything we know about computing, possibly making flash memory, RAM, and even hard drives obsolete within a decade.

The memristor is just one of the incredible technological advances sending shock waves through the world of computing. Other innovations in the works are more down-to-earth, but they also carry watershed significance. From the technologies that finally make paperless offices a reality to those that deliver Wireless power, these advances should make your humble PC a far different beast come the turn of the decade.

Some researchers have pointed out problems with the memristor models of HP Labs. A paper by P. Meuffels and H. Schroeder published in Applied physics A noted that one of the early memristor papers included a mistaken assumption regarding ionic conduction. A paper was posted on arxiV by P. Meuffels and R. Soni discussing possible issues and problems in the realization of memristors in terms of Landauer's priciple. The physics behind the concept of memristive systems like the HP memristor seems to be in conflict with fundamentals of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Following the dynamic state equations of such systems, one would be able to violate Landauer's principle of the minimum possible amount of energy required to change "information" states in a system.