...and you may be thinking what that has to do with gaming. Well, a memristor is a completely new component in electronics; no other combination of fundamental components can create it. It changes resistance based on the past flow of current: i.e., it is a resistor with memory. These two states can be interpreted as '1' or '0', and the states survive even when the power is turned off. In this way it can store data.
Since 1971, the memristor has been a theoretical concept; never proven in reality. A team from HP Labs has found ad described a real example of this behaviour discovered in a nanoscale system.
(Strukov, Dmitri B; Snider, Gregory S; Stewart, Duncan R & Williams, Stanley R (2008), "The missing memristor found", Nature 453: 80-83, doi:10.1038/nature06932)
A memristor has numerous possible applications. Two relevant ones are a transistor on a much smaller scale than currently available, and solid-state (non-moving; no noise) memory with access times as fast as RAM and not losing data when the power is removed.
I'll say that again:
A solid state hard drive that can read and write data as fast as RAM.
How do you think that might be relevant to gaming...?
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