Equation 3 · Part 1 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Post-CMOS, Neuromorphic, Photonic, and Quantum AI Compute
Symbol q
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q is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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q is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
where M(q) , the memristance, depends on the history of charge q that has flowed through the device — which is precisely what makes a memristor’s resistance a record of its own past, and precisely why it was recognized decades later as a natural candidate for an analogue, in-memory synaptic weight [ 3 ] .
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