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Do memristors read or write based on the applied voltage? I noticed that in some of the intel marketing material.


How else would you do read/write?


I'm not familiar with the physics of memristors or storage in general. I was wondering if a single line is used to read and write, increasing the voltage on write to change the state.


Apparently a few different things have been called "memristors", but at least some of them have a resistance that depends upon the integral of current through them into the infinite past. DC current one way to write a 1, the other way to write a 0, and AC current to nondestructively read, I guess. Typically this works through ion migration in the material, and I suspect that resulted in abysmal endurance, putting an end to the promise of memristors.




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