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Sat May 01, 2010 6:12 am
One of the biggest benefits is compact, non-volatile memory. Using memristors in place of transistors could enable non-volatile RAM, without the downsides of flash memory. Non-volatile RAM would enable faster complete boots (but would have to be intelligently-regulated, because you still want a lot of the RAM to be dumped on power-off) as it could keep OS components in memory after power-off.
But the ultimate benefit is state count. Transistors have two states: on, and off. All machine-level programming is based around that binary setup. Memristors have more than two states. The implications that has for computing power on the machine level is earth-shattering. It completely defies our conceptions of what's necessary for a powerful computer.