Much better article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397335 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397335 I really hope these make the hard-disk and RAM obsol

Much better article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397335 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397335 I really hope these make the hard-disk and RAM obsolote. The hard-disk of course is the current bottle neck, so removing it entirely from the picture with potentially smaller, and cheaper devices alone will lead to an insane amount of innovation. For example, the idea that we can move away from the von Neumann model and have in-memory processing (so-to-speak) could lead to a revolution in computer vision and other highly parallel, compute-intensive, pattern matching applications. For now, HP will begin to deploy these things in tiny, very sensitive sensors that will lead to, potentially, more efficient discovery of oil: http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2009/oct-dec/cense.html http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2009/oct-dec/cense.html