Re: [fonc] memristors and the changing landscape of systems architectures

2012-07-11 Thread BGB
On 7/11/2012 4:25 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: BGB writes: On 7/10/2012 8:53 PM, Daniel Gackle wrote: I watched the video and got excited too. Petabits of on-chip non-volatile storage? that also can do logic? That's more than a game changer. same here, it seems like an int

Re: [fonc] memristors and the changing landscape of systems architectures

2012-07-11 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
BGB writes: > On 7/10/2012 8:53 PM, Daniel Gackle wrote: > > I watched the video and got excited too. Petabits of on-chip > non-volatile storage? that also can do logic? That's more than a > game changer. > > same here, it seems like an interesting technology. However, I'd bet on it

Re: [fonc] memristors and the changing landscape of systems architectures

2012-07-11 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Daniel Gackle writes: > I watched the video and got excited too. Petabits of on-chip > non-volatile storage? that also can do logic? That's more than a > game changer. > > But it seems that HP's memristor claims are controversial within the > research community: > >   http://vixra.org/abs/1205.00

Re: [fonc] memristors and the changing landscape of systems architectures

2012-07-11 Thread Loup Vaillant
I think the most game changing features are its impressives capabilities, but its impressive *flexibility*. Even if performance wise, relative to power and physical volume, it does no better than other architectures, it is still a full system on a chip, with one crucial difference: nearly all