{"id":98745,"date":"2026-04-17T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=98745"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:11:43","slug":"memristor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/memristor\/","title":{"rendered":"Memristor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Memristor Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers from the University of Cambridge have reported a new kind of brain-inspired nanodevice, a hafnium-oxide memristor that could dramatically cut artificial intelligence\u2019s (AI) energy use.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Memristor<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Memristor\u2019 is a combination of \u2018<\/span><b>memory\u2019 and \u2018resistor\u2019.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>electronic component<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> whose <\/span><b>resistance depends on the history of current flow<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, allowing it to \u201cremember\u201d past electrical states.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A resistor is a small device that applies a fixed amount of resistance to a current passed through it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Features of Memristor<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike a resistor, a <\/span><b>memristor has variable resistance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and \u2018remembers\u2019 the resistance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the current is removed, the memristor \u2018remembers\u2019 the resistance it offered and maintains it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Memristors <\/span><b>are nanomaterial<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and don\u2019t take up much space. Their <\/span><b>energy demand is also very small.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are usually <\/span><b>made of a thin layer of titanium dioxide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (TiO2) sandwiched between two metal electrodes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Applications of Memristor<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Memory Devices:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Due to their ability to store previous resistive states, memristors are viable non-volatile random-access memories (NVRAM) for <\/span><b>computers, industrial automation systems.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Integrated Circuits: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Memristors have been identified as viable components for augmenting or potentially <\/span><b>replacing transistors in integrated circuits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ICs).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Neuromorphic Computing:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Researchers are exploring the viability of using memristors to build <\/span><b>neuromorphic (brain-like) systems for artificial intelligence.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/brain-inspired-hafnium-oxide-memristors-promise-to-cut-ai-energy-use\/article70863669.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memristor is an electronic component whose resistance depends on the history of current flow, allowing it to \u201cremember\u201d past electrical states. 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