Memristor based RAM could be out by 2009

neural.disruption writes: "According to this EETimes article, HP is announcing that it "plans to unveil RRAM prototype chips based on memristors with crossbar arrays in 2009". I don't know if you remember the early story about HP Labs proving the existence of the Memristor that had been early predicted in 1971 by Leon Chua (Wikipedia) and has the nice property of maintaining a memory of the current that passes by them. This could bring us a new type of small non-volatile high-speed RAM at low cost because of the low complexity of the mechanism employed. Also I think this could be used to as a cheap(and perhaps faster)substitute of Flash memory."