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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."
Has been resisting me for years. I'll be damned if I can remember where I put my keys.
Sig this!
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?
This is the real difference between genuine R&D (actual breakthrough in computer science) and Cupertino R&D (Let's remove the floppy drive! Let's remove the optical drive! Let's remove the keyboard! I can't believe we're acutally being paid for this!)
The Institute of Incomplete Research has determined that 9 of out 10
There wouldn't be a excuse for tiny amounts of space even on the lowest of the low end phones.
Restore the madness of youth's lechery
I'll claim prior art
BM3
As if two weren't enough.
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.
This is a really big deal. Since our brains work in much the same way as an array of memristors, this brings the possibility of an artificial brain (and perhaps artificial intelligence) much closer to reality.
Maybe I will live to see Data in my lifetime.
Apple's designs should be put on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'
Don't you mean "Beware of the Snow Leopard?" They changed the sign last August.
10.6.
I'll claim prior art
And how will you do that, if you can't speak, Mr. Anderson?
Sincerely,
HP Legal Department
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
In writing, of course. It's the better choice for anything with legal implications anyway.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Once HP figures out a way to make sure that they won't work if either the black cartridge or the combined color cartridge are empty, Memristors will be ready for commerical release...