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I’m old enough to remember when the memristor was going to signal a computing paradigm shift.
by bradhe 4y ago
I’m old enough to remember when the memristor was going to signal a computing paradigm shift.
- Twirrim 4y agoHP still knocks the dust off that one every few years, touts their major achievements towards it each time, and implies it's only a couple of years until it'll hit the market. It has been a few years, which means we're probably close to the next round of articles.
- monocasa 4y agoI heard a rumour that they sold of the IP rights piecemeal to so many different entities that it's nearly impossible to actually legally use the technology in a product anymore.
- marcosdumay 4y agoMemristors are inherently not practical, and there were plenty of people pointing this at the time. Magnetronics are an open question, nobody really knows how useful it can be. (But they have more promise for energy efficiency than miniaturization and cost-cutting.)
- jiggawatts 4y ago> Memristors are inherently not practical There were practical products based on it, shipped in volume! What do you mean they were "inherently" not practical?
- marcosdumay 4y agoDiffusion based products have a minimum size that prevents they being used anywhere where they could be useful. What practical products did you see?