A Tiny Machine: Infinitesimal Computing Device

In today's world people are always trying to make technology smaller, faster, and more powerful. Electrical and computer engineers at the University of California Santa Barbara have created a nanoscale device that does functional computing. The idea of having nanosized computing came about from a physicist in 1959 who spoke of a future in which tiny machines could carry out large tasks. The device created by engineers uses a dense 3-D circuit that could theoretically fit in the a block no bigger than 50 nanometers. The small devices processes data within a 3-D memory structure . This allows more data to be stored and the data to be processes much quicker. The key to the nanoscale device are meristors. Memristors are circuit elements that change resistance depending on the most recent charges, and the direction of the charges that have flowed through them. By also having logic operation and information storage happen at the same time the need for certain componenets is much less, saving lots of wasted space.

I found this article interesting as I always like to see that the world of technology is getting more and more advanced. To think that there could be operations being done at the nanoscale is crazy to me. I also found the idea that logic operation and information storage were happening at the same time to be particularly interesting. As we learned in class through control flow the logic operation, and information storage typically happen seperately. I wonder how it is possible to have the two happen simulatenously. 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161028162049.htm