Editorial Special Issue for 50th Birthday of Memristor Theory and Application of Neuromorphic Computing Based on Memristor - Part II.

In 1971, Dr. Leon Chua, known as the father of nonlinear circuits and cellular neural networks, postulated the existence of memristor, a portmanteau of memory resistor, in his seminal paper: “Memristor—The missing circuit element” published in IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory, the predecessor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers. In 2008, Hewlett-Packard researchers made nanomemristor devices for the first time, setting off an upsurge of memristor research. The emergence of nanomemristor devices is expected to realize nonvolatile RAM. Moreover, the integration, power consumption, and read–write speed of the RAM based on memristor are superior to those of traditional RAMs. The hardware network based on memristor synaptic devices is an important development direction of neuromorphic computing. It is a powerful technical candidate to break through the traditional von Neumann computing architecture in the post-Moore era, which will provide a feasible scheme about a technological breakthrough for surpassing Moore’s law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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