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Stan Williams of HP Labs gave a talk recently at Rice, his alma mater. He was describing the "HP Machine" they are working on, with memristors at the bottom of

by tacon 12y ago

Stan Williams of HP Labs gave a talk recently at Rice, his alma mater. He was describing the "HP Machine" they are working on, with memristors at the bottom of a hardware and software stack rearchitected from scratch. Don't look to be able to buy any memristors from HP anytime soon. HP predicts that their own internal demand, in producing the HP Machine, will consume all their memristor production for years.

grondilu 12y ago
> Stan Williams of HP Labs gave a talk recently at Rice Any link?
- glibgil 12y ago
  Here you go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651143 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651143
  - grondilu 12y ago
    Haha.
- tacon 12y ago
  Here is the abstract of the talk. There was a video made, but I don't see it online yet. http://www.k2i.rice.edu/EventsList.aspx?EventRecord=23375 http://www.k2i.rice.edu/EventsList.aspx?EventRecord=23375
  - ehsanu1 12y ago
    Managed to find it here: https://mediacosmos.rice.edu/app/plugin/embed.aspx?ID=vVUTzFCE006yZu3TF1sXKg&displayTitle=false&startTime=0&autoPlay=false&hideControls=false&showCaptions=false&width=420&height=236&destinationID=URka-_E5-0-e4girH4pDPQ&contentID=vq2oQtAqPkeAqm5F6uSnqA&pageIndex=1&pageSize=10 https://mediacosmos.rice.edu/app/plugin/embed.aspx?ID=vVUTzF...
    - cbennett 12y ago
      thanks very much for this! had been looking for some time for a quite recent Williams talk
walterbell 12y ago
Let's see if one of four fundamental electronic components will be independently productized and sold by other vendors or countries to everyone-but-HP. Anyone remember IBM hardware monopolies? Would we like a world where HP makes memristors, Google makes resistors, Amazon makes capacitors, and everyone else waits for leftover inventory?
- vegedor 12y ago
  You can assume the production of a Memristor to be significantly more involved than the drilling of a piece of wire at a specific length. Edit: And there's no reason against keeping it a company secret, either.

by tacon 12y ago

grondilu 12y ago

> Stan Williams of HP Labs gave a talk recently at Rice Any link?

glibgil 12y ago
Here you go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651143 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651143
- grondilu 12y ago
  Haha.
tacon 12y ago
Here is the abstract of the talk. There was a video made, but I don't see it online yet. http://www.k2i.rice.edu/EventsList.aspx?EventRecord=23375 http://www.k2i.rice.edu/EventsList.aspx?EventRecord=23375
- ehsanu1 12y ago
  Managed to find it here: https://mediacosmos.rice.edu/app/plugin/embed.aspx?ID=vVUTzFCE006yZu3TF1sXKg&displayTitle=false&startTime=0&autoPlay=false&hideControls=false&showCaptions=false&width=420&height=236&destinationID=URka-_E5-0-e4girH4pDPQ&contentID=vq2oQtAqPkeAqm5F6uSnqA&pageIndex=1&pageSize=10 https://mediacosmos.rice.edu/app/plugin/embed.aspx?ID=vVUTzF...
  - cbennett 12y ago
    thanks very much for this! had been looking for some time for a quite recent Williams talk

walterbell 12y ago

Let's see if one of four fundamental electronic components will be independently productized and sold by other vendors or countries to everyone-but-HP. Anyone remember IBM hardware monopolies? Would we like a world where HP makes memristors, Google makes resistors, Amazon makes capacitors, and everyone else waits for leftover inventory?

vegedor 12y ago
You can assume the production of a Memristor to be significantly more involved than the drilling of a piece of wire at a specific length. Edit: And there's no reason against keeping it a company secret, either.