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Podcast: HP's memory breakthrough
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Reporter Michael Kanellos talks about a discovery that could lead to the commercialization of denser, more energy-efficient memory chips.
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HP Labs says it has come up with a way to pack more dense memory chips together into devices, which could give flash memory a run for its money in a couple of years. Memristors were thought to be only a theory when a young UC Berkeley professor first wrote about them 37 year ago. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos tells Erica Ogg what this breakthrough could mean.
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