I have heard of a 4th electronic parameter (in addition to resistance, capacitance and inductance)

It is memristance. Didn't know TiO2 (titanium dioxide) was a semiconductor.
TiO2 is very common. Basically anything white. White paint, white ceramic coating (toilets, sinks etc), white toothpaste).

Very interesting...

Quite incredible, opens lots of new doors, I think its interesting that its going to happen around about the same time as the chip manufacturers hit the limit, like the guy in the video said they cant go much further with memory and chip technology as it is now.

HP Labs teams up with Hynix to manufacture memristors, plans assault on flash memory in 2013

The link is here but the headline is more interesting. 

I'm not certain if they use memristers in those new circuits either, Snowy, but I did find the article interesting.

Also found a typo, too (at least I think I did)


I think their count of learning synapses is off by a hundred.
(for those not familiar with the "inner workings" of computers, 99.999999999...% of all addressing boundaries - the means by which computers know how to access specific bits of data - are binary-based, meaning that 65536 is expressed as 1 0000 0000 0000 0000 in binary - a suitable number.
65636 is 1 0000 0000 0110 0100 in binary, which... this is going to turn into a lecture in binary if I don't stop now, and such a lecture is boring, so I'll quit before I launch into "professor mode". Suffice it to say that I'm quite certain that the statement I quoted above is, indeed, a typo.)

I also wonder if these synapses use, or take advantage of, or are even possibly plagued with the effects of state-change due to nearby magnetic fields, as recent neurological research studies have found just may be the case in synapses within the human brain. It would be interesting, if they did.

Oh, of course. I knew that. As someone who know's Jack about the internal's of a computer, could someone translate for me, and the rest of the world. In layman's, what the hell does that mean.

To add to Snowy's excellent primer, and to point out a minor 'oops':

On the data end, there's a 'bit' (short for 'Binary digIT'), which is either 0 or 1. Eight of these bits (shown as a lower-case 'b') makes up a Byte (shown as an upper-case 'B'). Bytes range in value from 0 to 255 (which is 1111 1111 in binary) for a total of 256 possible values (including 0). From there we have the word, which is two bytes, or 16 bits (ranging from 0 to 65,535 in decimal {1111 1111 1111 1111 in binary} for a total of 65,536), and a Dword ("Double word") which is four bytes, or 32 bits, and has a maximum value of 4,294,967,295 (um, Snowy? while 2,147,483,648 is 32 bits, it's not the maximum value. In ' signed' binary {'signed' binary allows for positive/negative numbers, but it cuts the maximum 'positive' value in half} it's -1. I won't get into signed/unsigned binary, though. regular binary is confusing enough). From there we have other designations, but they're rarely used.

No, Diesel. not a complete idiot. Parts seem to be missing.

Just kidding. We all have our strengths and weaknesses.