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Nov. 21, 2008: Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium at UC Berkeley

Title: Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium
Location: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Description: This symposium will explore the potential of memristors and memristive systems as they advance state of the art nano-electronic circuits. Funded by the National Science Foundation, partnership with UC Merced and UC Berkeley, assistance from Semiconductor Industry Association.
Date: 2008-11-21
Information: Symposium Homepage and Registration Information.

Hardware, of a sort: Mice Memories Selectively Erased

This story was pointed out by a reader with the caveat, “We do our own erasing. Who needs the scientists?” Its so off-topic as to be off-color, and doesnt relate to Memory but to Memories, but its just too interesting to pass up, and humor is important lately (read: financial meltdown, credit default derivatives, [...]

Toshiba hardens SanDisk against Samsung buyout

Its being reported in the nytimes that Toshiba is buying 1 billion US of equipment from California-based SanDisk, in part helping to harden SanDisks baseline fundamentals against the takeover bid by Samsung.
Samsung is currently ranked no. 1 in the memorychip maker market, while Toshiba holds the number 2 spot. SanDisk holds a variety of important [...]

Oct 7-14: Memory Technology Weekly News Roundup

A busy couple of weeks in the memory technology sector:
The Internet of Things gets industry boost from the IPSO Alliance : “We are bringing together companies across the globe with the objective of using IP to interconnect physical objects with the global Internet. Through our Technical Advisory Board we will document, demonstrate and teach how [...]