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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by hinkley on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:33PM (#15571015)
Do you remember when IBM sold off their hard drive research division?

I was convinced this meant they knew memristors were going to kill hard drives soon and they were profit taking before killing them off.

That’s been more than ten years now. I am still waiting, but made other plans.

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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by deelowe on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:55PM (#15571174)
In all fairness, the hd industry as a whole has shrunk considerably since. Same for servers and PCs. I think they made the right decision, but I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say they had a good strategy for what they would do once they got rid of these product lines.
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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by Aloha on Friday October 27, 2017 @06:08PM (#15572597)
They sold it when hard drives became a commodity item - generally commodity items don't get major R&D attached to them.
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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by manigandham on Friday October 27, 2017 @08:53PM (#15573415)
There's still plenty of R&D being done with storage: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11925/western-digital-stuns-s...
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