http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/ Engadget Comments for HP touts memristor development, bleak future for transistors http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/
There seems to be so many positives to this technology, I guess the question has to be asked... what's the negative?

Super expensive? (for now)]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Indeed. I can't think of any negative.]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/
The question still hanging in the air is is it viable as a consumer technology.

There's been plenty of similat exciting technologies that have died in te design board. Slight advances in technology are cheaper than huge leaps. This might survive for being in somewhat lesser than a huge leap.]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/
Losing your lifes work cause it got mistaken for Sugar cubes and added to a coffee?]]>Apr 8th 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Yeah, there are a few questions yet to be answered here. Can a memristor processor be built on current architectures, or will we need specialized OSs to run on them? Is the memory aspect intended to be used for RAM, or storage? "Be sure to back up your processor before replacing it."]]>Apr 8th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is a novel by Philip K Dick and is most likely the reference he was going for.]]>Apr 8th 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/
Not a reference to Google Android! Duh. It's a book!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F

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"Silicon transistors are the stuff all our dreams of android sheep are made of,"

article starts with this sentence. uh, we're not all android fanboys like you.

]]>Apr 8th 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Never doubt the dudes in white coats!
THEIR CRAZY!]]>Apr 8th 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/My understand was that memristor is like a neuron, combined in the network can both store data and perform calculations. So while you increasing storage you also increasing calculation capacity.]]>Apr 8th 2010 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Which is it, Mr Savov? Come on; Ipadkiller needs to know! ]]>Apr 8th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/
Not really... heard about memristors 2-3 years ago, stories like these a simply re iterating and making noise.]]>Apr 8th 2010 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/
No one is saying that this is a brand new idea, but sometimes it takes years to bring a technology from the labs out into a practical form... if ever.

This particular news story makes it sound like it is much closer to being a real product than previous news stories I have read about memristors.


I personally love seeing HP get back to what it used to be... a much more research-based company, rather than simply being just another printer or computer-maker. The old HP, as well as companies like Xerox and Bell Labs pretty much invented most of the technology-related stuff we use today. ]]>Apr 8th 2010 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Everyone? ]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Igor: [pause, then] No.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?
Igor: Then you won't be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby Someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [chuckles, then] Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
[grabs Igor and starts throttling him]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Is that what you're telling me? ]]>Apr 22nd 2010 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/I can remember the day that I heard about these bad boys vividly!
These are the babies that are going to merge and replace our RAM and HDD/SSD's!]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Yep, and since they won't lose their state when you shutdown, you'll have an instant on OS. You can turn off your computer and turn it on again instantly from where you left off. Read/write speeds will be as fast as RAM for regular storage, this is a very exciting technology.]]>Apr 8th 2010 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/
I suspect the rest of the team are camped outside one infinite loop in tents telling scary nerd stories like the one about the "day of the 5k addressable memory" and "when the exec team got greedy and ate up all the profits killing the Amiga"

oh that and nips of fine rum and illegal cigars]]>Apr 8th 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/]]>Apr 8th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/And its supposed to run on AC not DC. So massive problems are abound.]]>Apr 8th 2010 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/hp-touts-memristor-development-bleak-future-for-transistors/Apr 8th 2010 3:27PM