5 Dec 2025 #Memristor #ArtificialIntelligence #Electronics For 37 years, mathematics predicted a “missing” fourth circuit element. Everyone knew about the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor, but the fourth one remained a mathematical ghost. It was considered impossible to build, until a team at HP Labs shocked the world in 2008.
This is the story of the Memristor (Memory Resistor).
Today, this technology is no longer just a theoretical curiosity. It is poised to solve the biggest crisis facing Artificial Intelligence: energy consumption. While modern AI consumes megawatts of power, the memristor promises to enable computers that “think” like the human brain: analog, efficient, and combining memory and processing in a single component.
In this video, we go straight to the source. We interview the “founding fathers” of this technology to understand the past, present, and future of the biological chip.
Featured in this video:
** Prof. Leon Chua: The legend who theoretically predicted the Memristor in 1971. ** Prof. Stan Williams: The leader of the HP Labs team that built the first Memristor in 2008. ** Prof. Themis Prodromakis: Leading researcher at the University of Edinburgh on neuromorphic applications.
CHAPTERS:
- 0:00 The problem with digital computers (and the energy crisis)
- 2:25 Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton on “Mortal Computation”
- 3:33 The 37-year hunt for the missing circuit element
- 5:53 Interview: Stan Williams on the “Eureka” moment at HP Labs
- 14:10 How a Memristor actually works (Titanium Dioxide)
- 18:48 Why Memristors didn’t replace RAM (The Hype Cycle)
- 21:55 The new revolution: Neuromorphic AI
- 25:15 Lab Tour: Seeing Memristors under the microscope
- 31:05 Demo: AI classification using Memristor hardware
- 34:05 Interview: Leon Chua on the “Law of Nature”
- 39:40 The reaction of the scientific community
- 45:05 The definition debate & The future of AI
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