Finally, The Battle of Britain

[SlipBall]

I decided to create a new thread from a post I made elsewhere. My hope is that people who are debating on an up-grade of their system, do so at a minimum cost. Just enough to play the game comfortably, possibly from used components. The goal being to not waste a lot of money, by going crazy on new high end hardware. I believe that the transistor as we know it, will be going away possibly as early as 2013...this thread is meant to inform the reader of coming memristor technology. and saving a buck



In 1971, electrical engineering professor Leon Chua proposed a theoretical basic electronics component called a memristor. In 2008, Hewlett Packard brought the memristor out of theory and into the real world. And today, HP announced that they have finally proven that they can build devices that use memristors, instead of the transistors that enable all current computer chips. Since memristors can store and process data simultaneously, stack on top of one another in a 3-D fashion, and function at much smaller sizes than a transistor, this advance could increase the power and memory of computers to nearly unimaginable proportions within only a couple of years.