Memristors for More Than Just Memory: How to Use Learning to Expand Applications

There has been a huge explosion of interest in the memristor since the first experimental confirmation by HP in 2008 (Strukov et al., Nature 453:80–83, 2008). Because the memristor and its variants provide a huge increase in memory density, compared with existing technologies like flash memory , many of us expect that they will move very quickly to a huge and important market in the memory area. But what about other large-scale markets and applications? What is the pathway which could open up those larger markets? The purpose of this chapter is to discuss what would be needed to capture those larger markets.

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