All over the world, researchers are currently working hard, hoping to find and develop what will replace Flash NAND on the non-volatile computer storage market. As a reminder, Flash NAND is for now used in most storage devices: (USB flash drives, memory chips, SSD, etc.) and doesn't erase itself without electricity.
Among other potential successors, there is ReRAM. It is based on the memristor, which can change its resistance depending on the current and voltage passing through it, and that way, can hold 1 or 0. The technology has been known since 1971 but until now, no one has succeeded in mass-producing those memory chips. Hynix and HP have decided to team-up in order to make that technology get out of the lab.
They are not the first ones to try. In 2007, Fujitsu had announced major improvement on ReRAM but it didn't lead to any new product.
If researchers succeed, we will have a much faster memory than Flash NAND, which will in the mean time consume less power to read but most importantly write data.
