I found interesting that world's first mechanical computer, Charles Babbage's "Analytical Machine" had a base-10 fixed point arithmetic [1], and we could soon have base-10 RRAM...
Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
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Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
he doesn't seem to talk about the end of the Von Neuman architecture. Explain that part?
Start here, around the 38 min mark: http://youtu.be/bKGhvKyjgLY?t=37m59s
yeah, still don't see where he talks about architecture. He explains how memristors can be used for logic, but con Neuman is not implicitly wedded to transistors.
Don't get me wrong, I think they will be useful.
Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#23Stan Williams of HP Labs gave a talk recently at Rice, his alma mater. He was describing the "HP Machine" they are working on, with memristors at the bottom of a hardware and software stack rearchitected from scratch. Don't look to be able to buy any memristors from HP anytime soon. HP predicts that their own internal demand, in producing the HP Machine, will consume all their memristor production for years.
Let's see if one of four fundamental electronic components will be independently productized and sold by other vendors or countries to everyone-but-HP. Anyone remember IBM hardware monopolies? Would we like a world where HP makes memristors, Google makes resistors, Amazon makes capacitors, and everyone else waits for leftover inventory?
You can assume the production of a Memristor to be significantly more involved than the drilling of a piece of wire at a specific length.
Edit: And there's no reason against keeping it a company secret, either.