hardware

HP have managed to produce a new (or perhaps old) type of semi-conductor device, called a memristor, the theory of which was originally proposed forty years ago.  One of the novel features is that it can store, or remember, the state of charge it had when the power supply was turned off.  This potentially offers new ways of making device memory.  As a BBC article suggests this may make it possible to build computers that boot up almost instantly.  The writer gets a bit carried away though when s/he adds that it