A University of Michigan electrical engineer has built the first array of nanoscale memristors, allowing for it to store up to 1 kilobit of information.

Memisters could open the door to universal memory. Memristor memory is non-volatile, the density of a memristor-based memory chip could be at least 10 times higher than current transistor-based chips, and you could save data to a memristor memory 1000 times faster than saving to today’s flash memory. They could also allow for robust biologically-inspired logic circuits that emulate the human brain.