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HP Reports Memory Resistor Breakthrough
andy1307 writes "Hewlett-Packard scientists on Thursday will report advances demonstrating significant progress in the design of memristors, or memory resistors. The researchers previously reported in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they had devised a new method for storing and retrieving information from a vast three-dimensional array of memristors. The scheme could potentially free designers to stack thousands of switches on top of one another in a high-rise fashion, permitting a new class of ultra-dense computing devices even after two-dimensional scaling reaches fundamental limits."
But is it so much more efficient that you could stack thousands of layers without turning your chip into a hunk of molten glass? That would probably be an even bigger breakthrough.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
I don't know if this is a real mccoy (slashdot hasn't been the same in these days), but if it is, it's electrical engineering, not computer science.
Kids these days...
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Finally something that sounds like it's actually patentable.
And not just patentable, but good solid research. It seems to me that lately, US companies have been cutting and cutting R&D budgets. The markets are so focused on who makes their current quarter earnings marks, and sinking money into innovation does not help towards making that profits goal. And because of this, it seems that we have lost touch with planning for the future.
That always made me sick to my stomach. I am always thrilled when these big companies, that spun up and put technology where it is today, the HPs, the IBMs, the Xeroxs, the ATT/Bell/Lucents, etc., come out with something cool. I even like it when the small guys do something, but often they dont have the money to make it all the way to market.
Anyway, my point is, I hope we see corporations (and everyone else, like NASA, etc) realize how important science and innovation are to our future. I hope that we can get back to the "old days" of (literally) shooting for the moon and achieving it, rather than spending money on fluffy marketing and trying to squeeze out margins with just barely passable work.
This kinda stuff, I love. More please!
(sorry for a horribly written post)
....isn't more along the lines of "Solid State Physics"?
Over-the-top Response Guy! Giving "Over-the-Top Responses" since 1970.
Finally something that sounds like it's actually patentable.
Yeah, but it can't be that big of a breakthrough... Nobody's filed any lawsuits yet.
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Full time employees of US tech companies with over $100B in market cap (data from Yahoo! Finance):
1. IBM 410,830
2. HP 304,000
3. Microsoft 93,000
4. Oracle 86,000
5. Intel 79,800
6. Cisco 65,550
7. Apple 34,300
8. Google 19,835
In writing, of course. It's the better choice for anything with legal implications anyway.
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