HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It

Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by fra on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @12:53PM (#9686996)

this is an unmitigated disaster for HP. What this signals to me is that they have given up on commercializing memristors any time soon. That's a $500M write-down (not as bad as autonomy I guess) and the end of their most promising R&D project.

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Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by norea-armozel on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @01:44PM (#9687344)

I think they underestimated the time table to bring it to market. It would've been better to focus on introducing memristors into specialized processing chips where they could be leveraged immediately.

On the other hand, it's good they've tried for a Moon shot than nothing. Maybe someone could buy the project from them since I think non-von-Neumann architectures are the future. It's just they don't have the budget or the share holders with the patience for it.

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Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by devonkim on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @03:55PM (#9688171)

HP has had a strong recent history of strongly preferring to launch products made by other companies originally resulting in lagging pretty far behind and failing to become a market leader in any higher margin business with actually realized growth. Internally developed products from R&D got far, far less backing compared to a salesforce of hundreds to thousands pushing acquisition products like Fortify and Autonomy or 3PAR and webOS based tablets on the hardware side.

I'm not sure if you meant to make a pun, but HP literally had a project called Project Moonshot for a while that was a bet on the rise of microservers. It was also highly coupled with HP's bet on OpenStack taking mass control over internal datacenters of the Fortune 500. I, myself, kind of bet fairly hard on Openstack but after seeing the rather slow progress of adoption for it after the better part of a decade of its existence in some form, I'm thinking that people will start pulling out just from lack of progress.

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Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by aaggarwal on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @02:47PM (#9687797)

I agree, plus they haven't been able to bring memristors to market as they promised again and again in 2008, 2012, 2014 and even now.

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Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by rrss1122 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @12:57PM (#9687019)

It is a shame that the hype could not match reality. They actually managed to get me excited for the memristor future.

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Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by uxcn on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @01:11PM (#9687132)

Interesting research[1] is still happening.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/...

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Re:HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It by aaggarwal on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @02:41PM (#9687754)

Actually, HP had been doing that since quite some time. In 2008, they announced that they have discovered the memristor and would bring it in the market by 2012, which then shifted to 2014, then 2015, and now they are still not sure whether they will be able to utilize this by 2020. No surprise here.

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