A Radical Computer Revolution Coming Soon: The Machine, From HP
Closeup of HP Memristor devices on a 300mm wafer. New computers are announced every week, but it's been sixty years since we have seen a fundamental change in our computing paradigm. Hewlett Packard intends to do just that in 2015 with The Machine, a system based on memristors rather than transistors. Your current computer has gigabytes of transistor based dynamic RAM and twenty to sixty times as much long term storage in the form of a spinning disk. Maybe you were in a hurry, and your system has a solid state disk, but from the system's perspective the SSD is handled just like a....
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