Re:What's Different About Next-Gen Transistors
by Throwawayaerlei on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:34PM
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If you look at IBM's history you can see how reliability and the ability to manufacture components in quantity played a huge role in the adaptation of both. Bell Lab's early point contact ones weren't manufacturable. IBM didn't move to proper ICs until 1970 with the System/370 because anything they made including the low end would be sold in quantities too high for ICs before then (System/360 Models 85 and 195 preceded the 370s, but the only sold 60 total).
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Re:What's Different About Next-Gen Transistors
by gtirloni on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:41PM
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So memristors are almost here, is that what you're saying?
Re:What's Different About Next-Gen Transistors
by Throwawayaerlei on Saturday October 22, 2022 @10:21AM
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No idea. For example, between the development of core memory and DRAM there were a host of technologies they tried because core is slow and expensive to manufacture. The best they did for speed was called thin-film, and they sold only two systems with it, upgrades of the System 360 Model 91 supercomputer named the Model 95. They had 1 MiB of it and 4 MiB of core, sold to NASA, the first Model 91 customer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_91