Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
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Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
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Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#2Oh that is pretty clever. I wonder what the write time is. Even a reliable 6 level memory would be useful giving you four useful states (2 bits), a non-initialized, and an initialized undef state.
Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#3Stan 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.
Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#4Stan 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.
> Stan Williams of HP Labs gave a talk recently at Rice
Any link?
Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#5Stan 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?
Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#6Assuming they work out performance and other engineering issues, could this be used to implement something like qubits?
Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#7Stan 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.
> Stan Williams of HP Labs gave a talk recently at Rice Any link?
Here you go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651143
Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#8Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#9Assuming they work out performance and other engineering issues, could this be used to implement something like qubits?
There's nothing in the article that would make me think that this is the case. A qubit is a fundamentally different concept, in which a computation can be performed on all possible states simultaneously. This seems to just be getting more states out of a single classical element.
Re: Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
#10Stan 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.
> Stan Williams of HP Labs gave a talk recently at Rice Any link?
Here is the abstract of the talk. There was a video made, but I don't see it online yet.