With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by higherpurpose on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @01:50PM (#7879340)

I assume the initial prices will also be 10x more per GB than what we have now, too, much like SSDs and flash storage in the beginning (it's still the case actually) - compared to flash storage that is - so 100x more per GB than HDD storage.

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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by valarauca1 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @01:52PM (#7879355)

It'll come down. Demand will be massive (if it lives up to the hype). This could potentially unify the RAM and Hard disks in computers.

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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by DelwinAmber on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:35PM (#7879620)

There will always be a place for yet faster memory. Does this compete with the registers and L1/L2 cache in terms of speed?

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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by avmich on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @02:50PM (#7879712)

But at least caches are often transparent to software, thus don't affect software as much.

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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by valarauca1 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @05:03PM (#7880431)

Likely my basic understanding of memristors they require a certain ramp time. So I don't think it'll replace cache.

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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by leishulang on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:58AM (#7883742)

it doesn't need to. If it's faster than the whole 'caching' procedure, than it is faster regardless.

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