The Machine
Six years ago, Hewlett-Packard announced that they had made a breakthrough in the development of computer memory with the "memristor," a circuit which remembers how much current has passed through it. This week, the company announced that they are working on something they call simply The Machine. They claim it is a totally new type of computer based on the new memristor circuit. Earliest projections for a demonstration prototype are 2017.
What's interesting here is this isn't just another incremental bus improvement, i.e., ISA -> MCA/EISA -> PCI. It's a more fundamental change, essentially removing discrete memory and storage in favor of the memristor tech. It's not a bus upgrade so much as it is eliminating the bus entirely. If they can make it work, it could shoot HP to the top of the industry heap virtually overnight.
What's interesting here is this isn't just another incremental bus improvement, i.e., ISA -> MCA/EISA -> PCI. It's a more fundamental change, essentially removing discrete memory and storage in favor of the memristor tech. It's not a bus upgrade so much as it is eliminating the bus entirely. If they can make it work, it could shoot HP to the top of the industry heap virtually overnight.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:53
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