Memristor-Based Computer

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/206401-with-the-machine-hp-may-have-invented-a-new-kind-of-computer

The article is impossibly bad, does anyone have a link with better details?

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=memristor

>>2
I mean specifically to do with what HP is doing. I've read up on memristors enough to satisfy my curiosity about the concept, but HP actually seems to be doing something with it.

The article is really bad. Most of the details in it are false or true but pointless.

There are two cool videos by the guy who is leading the HP Lab team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvA5r4LtVnc (6 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY (47 minutes)

and small faq here:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/apr-jun/memristor_faq.html

Since when does HP do basic research like this? Aren't they a inkjet printer ink company now?

Anyway, I wish them luck in rebuilding computers from the ground up and I hope the replace the entire architecture. It's been too long since the industry was shaken up; anything that kills x86 is a good thing.

I cannot wait to port my Scheme interpreter to it.

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Supposedly they've been dumping money on Hynix to help them out. Give them another 6-8 months and they'll push the estimate out 3 years (like they've been doing for the last 5 years...)

HP is fundamentally too big and too stupid to execute on new designs any more. I'd until at least one other company starts announcing plans to manufacture designs based on similar technology before getting excited.