HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
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Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#2The article mentions both 18 months and summer 2013. That's not entirely consistent.
Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#3Whatever happened with Nantero?
Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#4 I doubt HP itself will exist in 18 months.
Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#5I doubt HP itself will exist in 18 months.
Hyperbole much?
Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#6The article mentions both 18 months and summer 2013. That's not entirely consistent.
It's an estimate not an exact length of time. 18 months takes us to April 2013, so maybe they rounded April into "summer" or maybe they rounded 20 months to the nearest .5 of a year. Or maybe they class April as summer anyway.
It's not like those two times are way different.
Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#7The article mentions both 18 months and summer 2013. That's not entirely consistent.
The specific quote was "We’re planning to put a replacement chip on the market to go up against flash within a year and a half"
and "We have a lot of big plans for it and we're working with Hynix Semiconductor to launch a replacement for flash in the summer of 2013 and also to address the solid-state drive market"
June 2013 is twenty months away, so "a year and a half" is a very reasonable approximation, which it looks like the article writers then approximated again as "18 months"
Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#8I doubt HP itself will exist in 18 months.
Even if HP doesn't the technology for this will probably survive.
Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#9This article is mostly made of quotes from an EEtimes article[1], adds no information or value to it, and is (to me at least) less readable.
[1]:http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4229171/HP-Hynix-to-laun...
Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#10The really exciting part here, to me, is the idea of fabricating large amounts of nonvolatile memory on top of a CPU. Modern processors already spend a huge amount of their time waiting on memory, and a great amount of power trying to hide that memory latency. If these guys can lower memory latency dramatically -- and it looks like they can -- computers would get a lot faster.