Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w...
by adrianN on Saturday October 28, 2017 @01:05AM
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The speed of light dictates that there will always be a memory hierachy. A nanosecond is just a couple of inches of wire [1]. Communication overhead and heat issues are what ultimately limits computational power [2].
And that's BEFORE you do any of the exotic research of moving the computing elements around during operation. Just imagine if there was no memory hierarchy, where accessing a byte in mass storage is as fast and as easy as accessing a register. Quantum computers can't replace commodity hardware and there's no reason to think they will. Memristors, on the other hand, are one of the fundamental circuit elements and are destined to become as widespread as resistors, capacitors, and transistors.