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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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