Not if they continue cutting their hardware divisions, it won't.
HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
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#12Not if they continue cutting their hardware divisions, it won't.
> Asked about the competition, Williams said: "Samsung has An even larger group working on this than we do."
As a consumer, I'm indifferent to who does it. As long as it gets out.
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#13Great to see some positive press on HP. Hope HP can innovate their way out of the current slump.
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#14Watch HP research's Stanley Williams describe the memristor and what they are working towards in more detail on YouTube:
Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#15What are the implications for back end development? Will this greatly reduce server complexity (need for redundancy)? Could AWS just give you a machine in the cloud, and you wouldn't need to worry about databases and database backups and so on, you could just keep all your data locally in natural data structures?
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#16I doubt HP itself will exist in 18 months.
It won't disappear. It could be split, close some sites, change leadership again, etc. but it won't simply cease to exist. The existing infrastructure itself is worth too much.
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#17The 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.
This would be a huge boon for scientific computing. The data is often huge, but all of it must be constantly pushed through the CPU every iteration.
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#18Watch HP research's Stanley Williams describe the memristor and what they are working towards in more detail on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY&sns=em
From the video:
"So, I mean, we're all of a sudden talking petabits of memory in a square centimeter device. What can you do with that? Interesting to think about."
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#19Re: HP plans to release first memristor, alternative to flash and SSDs in 18 months
#20This 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...
EE Times article submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080963